Iraqi Jews

Opinion

Why does Holocaust Remembrance Day ignore Middle Eastern Jews?

Holocaust remembrance largely glosses over the suffering endured by Jews from Arab countries, writes a Mizrahi Israeli Jew.

By Hen Mazzig May 1, 2019 3:55 pm

Iraqi Jews’ expulsion highlighted at UK Limmud learning festival

A film about a Baghdad-born Jew's fight to buy a home in Iraq has emerged as one of the most popular sessions of an annual 5-day gathering.

December 25, 2017 1:43 pm

The Ancient Babylonian History of Haroset

The haroset most American Jews eat at the Passover seder to symbolize the mortar used by Hebrew slaves contains apples, walnuts and Manischewitz. But the delicious chunky mixture originated in ancient Babylonia, from dates cooked in copper pots over a low flame. In the following centuries, the stuff traveled from Babylon to Baghdad to Brussels […]

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