Bahar Soomekh was born on March 30th 1975 in Tehran, Iran, to a conservative Persian Jewish family, and moved, at age 4, with her parents and sister, Saba Soomekh, to Los Angeles, United States in 1979, to escape the Iranian revolution. Bahar remains a practicing, conservative, and proud Persian Jew to this day. She attended an Yeshiva, Sinai Akiba Academy and Beverly Hills High School, where she played the violin in the school orchestra. She majored in environmental studies at the Universit ...[Read Story]
