Iraqi jews
Iraq opens first Jewish museum as country's ancient community nears extinction
Iraq’s Jewish community, which dates back 2,500 years and once made up nearly a quarter of Baghdad’s population, now has its own museum in the city it largely left behind.
'Memory is a form of resistance': President Herzog commemorates the Farhud
Paris court dismisses Jewish family's compensation claim against government for not paying rent
Thousands of Middle East Jewish refugees lost est. $263 billion in assets, researchers show UNHRC
High Court: No compensation for Jews killed in 1941 pogrom in Iraq
The Knesset could resolve the issue.
After ISIS, Mosul finally values its Jewish heritage
Since ISIS attacked the diversity of the Iraqi community, diversity is now valued far more consciously, and this trend’s most surprising consequence is related to the Iraqi Jews.
Baghdad hangings: When Jews were snatched and accused of spying for Israel
Daoud Ghali Yadgar was only 21 years old when he was snatched and accused of spying for Israel.
'I've been sentenced to death' - a farewell letter of an Iraqi Jew in 1969
Sami Halali and his family were able to flee Iraq to Israel in 1971. Sami explained that the family hid the letter in their house after they received it in Iraq, but read it only once because of the pain it caused.
Chronicler of Iraq’s Jewish history murdered in Karbala
Alaa Mashzoub was an Iraqi writer and intellectual. He was shot 13 times while riding his bicycle.
Miss Iraq meets Miss Israel... in Jerusalem
After a selfie forced her to flee Baghdad, Sarah Idan reunited with her Israeli counterpart in Jerusalem.
Emerging from the chaos of ISIS, Baghdad’s bad boy triumphs
Once thought a failed state, Iraq has emerged from the chaos of ISIS to hold successful elections.
The 77th anniversary of the Farhud
For the sake of history and educating the future generations, a proper commemoration of the plight and the heritage of Jews from Arab countries should take place in Israel.
With Jews largely gone from Iraq, memories survive in Israel
In 1947, a year before Israel's birth, Iraq’s Jewish community numbered around 150,000. Now their numbers are in single figures. And they are missed.
Jewish nostalgia for Baghdad
A new film tells the volatile story of Iraq's Jews.
