Iraqi jews

Paris court dismisses Jewish family's compensation claim against government for not paying rent

The claim sought unpaid rent from the French government for its use of the family's ancestral home in Iraq as an embassy.

View of the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, in Paris, France, January 25, 2024.
Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,

Thousands of Middle East Jewish refugees lost est. $263 billion in assets, researchers show UNHRC

IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)

Grandson of expelled Iraqi Jews sues French gov't for millions unpaid rent on house used as embassy

 Alan Yentob, from London, Broadcaster and Television Executive poses after being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London. Picture date: Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Alan Yentob, British Jewish broadcaster and former BBC controller, dies at 78


Reichot VeTeamim: Iraqi traditional cuisine to warm you up

Limor Oren and Oded Shaharabani, a couple in life and owners of the delicatessen, decided to delve into the Iraqi cuisine and offer more than the regular kubbeh.

Reichot VeTeamim

Miracle discovery of Iraqi Jewish archives highlighted by new documentary

Saving the Iraqi Jewish Archives: A Journey of Identity, aims to highlight the existence of the archives and the Iraqi Jews who would like to reclaim them.

This Monument, ‘Prayer,’ in Ramat Gan, is in memory of the Jews who were killed in Iraq during the Farhud pogrom (1941) and in the 1960s.

Heritage takes center stage at 'A Stage for Arab-Hebrew Culture'

Ana Min el-Yahud (I Am from the Jews) at the Jaffa Theater blends Iraqi heritage with Israeli life

A scene from ‘I am From the Jews.’ August 2020.

Grapevine May 31, 2020: Justice delayed

Cracking down on sex abuse of minors has become a priority in Australia, and thus, the Australian media was particularly interested in quickly publishing the ruling of the Jerusalem District Court.

Diaspo President Reuven Rivlin and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi host a Zoom call with lone soldiers in Israel and around the world on April 7, instead of hosting them at the President’s Residence as in previous years.

Hanukkah celebration lights up Iraqi Kurdistan at prophet's tomb

Around 20 Kurdish Jews gathered in the town to celebrate the "festival of lights." Some came from Israel, but the majority were from the three provinces that make up Iraqi Kurdistan.

A fourth Hanukkah candle is lit at the Western Wall

Israel ambassador calls on UN to recognize Jewish refugees

Ambassador Danny Danon introduced the resolution at a General Assembly discussion marking 72 years since the November 29 Partition Plan.

THE MOSSAD saved Jews in foreign lands from North Africa to Iraq to Syria to Ethiopia

Here’s what it’s like to grow up as a Jew in Iraq

“It was hard being Jewish because I felt like, if you’re Jewish, you don’t really have anywhere to belong to,” she said.

Boy wearing a kippa

Iraq’s former PM Maliki joins chorus against U.S.-Iran policy

Maliki was the leader of Iraq during a period of intense sectarianism, when pro-Iranian forces were largely seen as increasing their hold on Baghdad.

 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

High Court: No compensation for Jews killed in 1941 pogrom in Iraq

The Knesset could resolve the issue.

A PHOTO of displaced Iraqi Jews in 1951. The government hopes to give a voice to the story of the millions of Jewish refugees

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.

AWARD-WINNING photographer Eddy van Wessel captured Mosul’s Jewish quarter: Hebrew inscriptions on the wall, near the Great Mosque of al-Nuri. (Eddy van Wessel)