Shlomo Hillel, who spearheaded mass aliyah of Iraqi Jews, dies at 97 Shlomo Hillel’s career placed him at every juncture of Israel’s birth and growth.
Ideas 52 years ago, 9 Jews were hanged in Baghdad. Today, their descendants risk losing everything they left behind. If the Iraqi Jewish Archives are sent back to Iraq, it will be another step in the ethnic cleansing of Iraqi Jews.
Ideas 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.