Iraqi jews

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

The BBC director-general remembered him as a "towering figure in British broadcasting and the arts."

 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.
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

 Memorial for Shlomo Mantzur who was kidnapped into Gaza on October 7 from Kibbutz Kissufim, October 7, 2024.

Hamas proves with Shlomo Mantzur murder that the spirit of the Farhud is truly alive - comment

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Powerful new documentary uncovers the ‘Untold Story of Iraq’s Jews’


NYC bar association holds event on the Forced Emigration of Jews from the Middle East

‘People are uninformed regarding Jewish indigeneity to the Middle East,’ say organizers Carole Basri and Aurora Cassirer.

 Speakers of the evening - left to right Judge Sofaer, Judge Strong, Carole Basri and Aurora Cassirer.

Six injured and at least one Iraqi fighter killed in explosion north of Baghdad

Two different explosive devices were detonated at the checkpoint on Saturday evening, according to the Iraqi Security Media Cell.

A view of a damaged building following missile attacks, in Erbil, Iraq, January 16, 2024

Jews from Arab lands are the missing piece of the Israeli-Palestinian discourse - opinion

 By bringing to the forefront the existence and truth of this often overlooked narrative, we can create a better future for all based on the realities of our histories.

"Group of Ashkenazim Jews" 1900 not GALL

The execution that marked the end of Iraqi Jewry - opinion

Iraq’s most powerful and richest Jew, who had hosted the regent in his home and had no links to Israel or Zionism, could be indicted in a show trial and hanged, what future would there be for them?

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

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

Iraqis in Pajamas will be releasing '#MahsaAmini on September 16, the anniversary of Amini's murder by Iranian police for wearing trousers.

 Iraqis in Pajamas

Rocker Dudu Tassa teams up with Radiohead leader

Tassa's great-uncle and grandfather were Kuwait-born musicians of Iraqi-Iranian ancestry, who became famous across the Arab world in the first half of the 20th century.

Dudu Tassa (left) and Jonny Greenwood.

A Sephardi renaissance is underway - opinion

While these nations have become increasingly vocal about welcoming the return of Jews, they have painful histories of violence.

 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.

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

The Sassoon family cannot be reduced to a stereotype of wealthy Jewish collectors who assimilated into European culture, nor can they be seen simply as “The Rothschilds of the East.”

 EZRA & MASOUDA SASSOON and family, Baghdad, 1919.

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.