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BEIT HARAV dedication ceremony a century ago, on 12 Sivan, 5683 / May 27, 1923. Seated on the dais is Rav Abraham Isaac Kook wearing his fur spodek; to his L are Harry Fischel, Herbert Samuel, and Sephardi chief rabbi Yaakov Meir.

A Sephardi renaissance is underway - opinion

By LEON SALTIEL

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

Don't forget, remember the Farhud - editorial

By JPOST EDITORIAL

A PANEL discussion takes place at the November 30 commemoration in London, chaired by the writer (center), and featuring Jack Hikmet and Sharon Theodore, who both lived in Baghdad at the time of the 1969 hangings.

At a commemoration in London, Iraqi Jews tell of their flight to freedom

Wolf of Baghdad by Carol Isaacs

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

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

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

Iraqis celebrate after UNESCO designated ancient city of Babylon as World Heritage Site in July of 2019

Is Babylon once again rising from the ashes?

By Joel C. Rosenberg / All Arab News

ARAB-ISRAELIS ATTEND a 2006 ceremony in Kafr Kassem memorializing 49 Arab-Israelis killed by Israel Police for allegedly violating curfew during the 1956 war. The memoir notes the author’s involvement in the commission that probed police actions.

The journey of an Iraqi-Israeli-British man and what he learned

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER

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

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

A fourth Hanukkah candle is lit at the Western Wall

Hanukkah celebration lights up Iraqi Kurdistan at prophet's tomb

Boy wearing a kippa

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

By BEN SALES/JTA

Dudu Tassa and the Kuwaitis album cover

Dudu Tassa and how Iraqi Arabic-Jewish music became hip again

By SHIRLEY FINKELSTEIN

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

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

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

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)

After ISIS, Mosul finally values its Jewish heritage

By JUDIT NEURINK

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

Baghdad hangings: When Jews were snatched and accused of spying for Israel

By ILANA STUTLAND

Karbala, Iraq

'I've been sentenced to death' - a farewell letter of an Iraqi Jew in 1969

By ZACK EVANS , CASSANDRA GOMES-HOCHBERG

AN IRAQI RESIDENT walks past an old building destroyed during an electrical fire in Baghdad in 2011.

Remembering Baghdad

By DAVID A. DANGOOR

A Babylonian Talmud from Vienna, 1793. This volume was among the items recovered from the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters.

Senate Minority Leader: Don’t return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq

By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa (R) speaks to British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) during the first Gulf Cooporative Council's (GCC) " GCC British Summit", in Sakhir Palace Bahrain, December 7, 2016.

Bahrain king denounces Arab boycott of Israel, says countrymen may visit

By TOM TUGEND