Iraqi jews

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

The report details how systematic state oppression, pogroms, and expulsions depopulated the nearly one million Jews of the Middle East.

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,
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

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

'Ensuring their story is remembered': Report highlights forgotten exodus of Iraqi Jews


Don't forget, remember the Farhud - editorial

More than 850,000 Jews fled or were expelled from Arab and Muslim lands in 1948, upon Israel’s establishment as a state.

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

Forgotten Arabian Jews recount lives of happiness and horror

A new book gives voice to some of the million or so Sephardi Jews who once lived harmoniously in the Mideast and North Africa, but who left everything behind after an explosion of antisemitism.

  Jews praying at Ezekiel's Tomb in Al-Kifl, Iraq in 1932.

The story of Iraqi Jews, antisemitism in new UK play - a biased review

That story is not mine alone. It is the story of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries forced to flee their millennia-old homelands.

 Members of the museum team clean an early 18th-century menorah at the Jewish Museum in London.

Jews in Bollywood: The Jewish actresses that shaped Indian cinema

New Delhi mural memorializes pioneering Baghdadi-Jewish film divas that helped shape the Bollywood film industry.

 Meenakshi Lekhi (left) and Naor Gilon unveil the mural of Nadira at Connaught Place in New Delhi.

Iraqi Jewish archives need to be returned to Iraqi Jews - opinion

The Iraqi Jewish Archive is now at grave risk at the hands of an Iraqi government that has criminalized relations with Jewish people.

 Members of Israel's Iraqi Jewish community at a Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 1, 2021

Award-winning 'Wolf of Baghdad' comes in Israel at Animax

Cartoonist Carol Isaacs, who often draws under the name Surreal McCoy, is set to bring the cinematic adaptation of her award-winning Wolf of Baghdad comic to Israel for the first time.

 Wolf of Baghdad by Carol Isaacs

Unlikely trio bring spirit, sound of Iraqi music to Confederation House

The threesome will take the stage at Confederation House on July 28 (8:30 p.m.) to strut their stuff – which will lean heavily on the Iraqi Arabic side of the musical genre tracks.

 THE RADIO BAGHDAD trio pools its diverse cultural baggage and musicianship to mine the rich seams of Iraqi music.

81 years since the Farhud: Iraqi families have not forgotten - opinion

My in-laws were lucky to have gotten out when they did. In December 1947, a Farhud-type pogrom swept Aleppo, leaving the community devastated.

 DURING THE 1940s, the writer’s in-laws, Leah and Yosef Chen, fled Aleppo on foot to Mandatory Palestine.

Iraq's anti-Israel law only hurts Iraqis - opinion

Iraq’s persecution of Jews, while tragic for the Iraqi Jewish community, has ultimately only led to suffering within Iraq for the Iraqi people.

 IRAQI LAWMAKERS attend a session of parliament in Baghdad, in March. There have been calls for normalization with Israel, but the Iraqi parliament last week passed a law rejecting any such notion.

Pascale's Kitchen: Jewish-Iraqi cuisine

The first is for making kubbeh balls. The second is for a sweet and sour pumpkin soup and the third for okra soup, both of which are made with kubbeh. The fourth recipe is for baklava.

 Baklava