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SHAFIQ ADES poses with his wife, Aliza, and some of their six children.

The execution that marked the end of Iraqi Jewry - opinion

Iraqis in Pajamas

Mahsa Amini's murder anniversary: Jewish singer to release song

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

DUDU TASSA (left) and Jonny Greenwood.

Rocker Dudu Tassa teams up with Radiohead leader

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

EZRA & MASOUDA SASSOON and family, Baghdad, 1919.

The Sassoons are having a moment. Here’s why that matters

By Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah/JTA

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

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

Forgotten Arabian Jews recount lives of happiness and horror

By Sara Miller/ The Media Line , DEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE

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

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

By EDWIN SHUKER

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

Jews in Bollywood: The Jewish actresses that shaped Indian cinema

By GIL ZOHAR

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

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

By CAROL BASRI , SARAH LEVIN

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

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

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

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.

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

By EMILY SCHRADER

Baklava

Pascale's Kitchen: Jewish-Iraqi cuisine

By PASCALE PEREZ-RUBIN

Hassan Al-Adari, head of the political body of the Sadrist bloc, meets with Hoshyar Zebari, head of the Kurdish delegation, for negotiations on forming the new government after the parliamentary elections, in Baghdad, Iraq, November 5, 2021.

Iraq to delay selection of a new president, lawmakers say

By REUTERS

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

Israel’s Iraqi Jewish community free to celebrate Hanukkah together

By MAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE

‘TRANSITIONS’ murals painted by Rubi Bakal, now on display at Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center, depicting life for newly arrived Iraqi immigrants in the transit camps.

Iraqi Jew recalls escape from Baghdad 70 years ago

By MAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE