Posts Tagged: Iraq Jews
Remembering the Farhud and Fighting Back for Israel
This week we recall the tragedy of al-Farhud -- the pogrom against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on June 1 and 2, 1941. The riots...
Remembering Babylon: New Exhibit Explores Roots of Jewish Life in Iraq
The Bible Lands Museum, the only museum in the world dedicated to the history of the Ancient Near East from a biblical perspective, has a new...
Like Jews Before Them, Iraq’s Christians May be Expelled if Islamists Win in Iraq
JNS.org - For most Westerners, Iraq is a foreboding and dangerous place that is filled with extremists and daily violence. Yet as little as...
Much-Debated Jewish Archive Won’t Return to Iraq – For Now
JNS.org - A much-debated artifacts collection from the historical Jewish community in Baghdad that was slated to return to Iraq will remain in the...
Senate Boosts Efforts to Keep Iraqi Jewish Archive Out of Iraq
JNS.org - Efforts to keep a significant collection of artifacts seized from Iraq's Jewish community by Saddam Hussein from being returned to the Gulf...
Protect the Iraqi Jewish Archive, or it Will Face a Terrible Fate
The 2,000-year-old Jobar Synagogue in Damascus is said to be the site where the prophet Elijah concealed himself from persecution and anointed his successor, Elisha....
UN Conference Highlights Plight of Jewish Refugees, Fate of Iraqi Jewish Archive
JNS.org - NEW YORK—On a boat departing Egypt for America in 1963, Lucette Lagnado's father screamed "Take us back to Cairo!" He would never...
42 Jewish Groups Urge Protection of Iraqi Jewish Archives
JNS.org - Forty-two groups, led by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, on Tuesday released a statement calling on the U.S. government...
Iraqi Jewish Archive Goes on Display in Washington
JNS.org - The U.S. National Archives is now displaying 24 out of 2,700 Jewish books and ancient documents that were recovered in the basement of...
Senator Chuck Schumer: Iraqi Archive Belongs to Jewish Community
JNS.org - Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants to stop the State Department from returning 2,700 Jewish books and ancient documents to Iraq. Sixteen American...
Large Questions Face Future of Iraqi Jewish Archive
JNS.org - A tip in May 2003 about a 7th-century Talmud volume in the basement of the Iraqi intelligence ministry (Mukhabarat) led a...
Should Iraq’s Jewish Archive be Returned to the Country?
JNS.org - A few years ago, in response to a Palestinian critic who made a disparaging remark about the fact that I don't speak...
US National Archives Preserves Recovered Iraqi Jewish Objects Ahead of Fall Exhibit
Conservators at the US National Archives have been hard at work restoring a wealth of historic objects from Iraq's Jewish community, according to The Washington...
