Focus on the Great Neck peninsula: A tale of two+ cities

Focus on the Great Neck peninsula: A tale of two+ cities

Great Neck’s Persian community and houses of worship are largely the product of two intertwined Iranian-Jewish migrations. But there’s an important distinction: the “Persian Jewish community in Great Neck” is not one homogeneous group.  #iykyk Before 1979: a mostly Ashkenazi Great Neck Great Neck already had a substantial Jewish population long before the Iranians a/k/a...