The Senate unanimously urged the State Department to renegotiate the terms for the return to Iraq of an archive of Iraqi Jewish texts. The resolution passed Thursday “strongly urges” the department to ...
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Dr. Mohammad: 'Iraq’s Jewish history and heritage is integral to the Iraqi identity'
Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Omar Mohammad, Professor of Middle East History at Sciences Po. Throughout his ...
Food preserves the story of the Iraqi Jews, a story of starting over. Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Chelsea Zimmer / Prop Styling by Christina Daley My grandmother’s kitchen was on the Upper East ...
WASHINGTON — The tattered Torah scroll fragments, Bibles and other religious texts found in a flooded Baghdad basement 10 years ago testify to a once-thriving Jewish population that’s all but ...
"Next year," they say, "in Jerusalem." The rallying cry of centuries of Jews is a fading echo this Passover in Baghdad, among a disappearing, dispirited remnant of an ancient and important Jewish ...
Seventy-five years ago this month, the Iraqi Parliament passed a law permitting Jews to leave the country provided that they ...
As a child of Iraqi Jews, The Farhud has forever been a part of my memory and the holiday of Shavuot will always be shadowed by this tragic event. My grandfather always attributed the death of his ...
The interior of the dilapidated Sassoon Synagogue in Iraq's northern city of Mosul. outside of the autonomous Kurdistan region. Iraq's Jewish community was once one of the largest in the Middle East ...
Iraqi workers restore the shrine of the the 10th century Jewish Rabbi Isaac Gaon in central Baghdad's al-Kifah neighborhood — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE In a vibrant Baghdad district, labourers are working ...
Baghdad was once one of the great cradles of Jewish culture and wisdom, but now, according to the Christian priest who has been looking after them, there are only eight Jews left in the Iraqi capital, ...
When University politics professor Ezra Suleiman was born in Iraq in 1941, it was still possible that Nazis would reach his country and kill him. When he speaks about the looming war with Iraq today, ...
Amid campus tensions, participants in Mizrahi cultural events say shared food, language and other commonalities are creating ...
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