Davida Steinberg

My sister called me to talk to my husband. "Turn on CNN! They're doing a piece on Bahá'is!"

As my Bahá'i husband turned to the TV and gave the phone back to me, my sister laughed loudly, despite the seriousness of the news. "Can you imagine if Calvin called our family every time Jews were mentioned in the mainstream media?!" We both laughed, and Calvin enjoyed the joke, too.

It's true, the Bahá'i Faith (as it is formally known) doesn't get as much press as Judaism. That is probably because it is a fairly new faith, founded in Persia (modern Iran) in the 1840s. In fact, nearly every time I see the Bahá'i Faith mentioned, there is an explanatory paragraph. So here it is, from the official website info.bahai.org:

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