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Originally Posted by majoun

For one thing, Persian Jews are not Sephardic.

There are undoubtably a much larger percentage of Persian Jews and Persian Christians in L.A. than in Iran, but no way are Jews the majority. let alone the "vast majority". It would be more accurate to say that both represent sizeable minorities of the Persian diaspora of L.A.'s westside. The numbers of Persian Jews and Persian Christians are about equal, also. Bahais are fewer in number.

Many Persian Muslims are not very devout, which would limit religious attendance.

Anthropologically speaking, Sephardic Jews are all Jews who look exclusively Middle Eastern, as opposed to Ashkenazi Jews who lived for centuries in the Byzantine Empire and have a more European phenotype, which can mean varying elements of Nordic, Mediterranean, Alpinid, or Slavic genetics, as well as a Turkic and Arabic admixture.

And I do believe that Sephardic Jews are more numerous than Christians of Middle Eastern heritage in West Los Angeles, The Palisades, Beverly Hills, and other neighboring communities, though other neighboring areas, especially to the north and east, may have a higher number of Christians of Mid East background.