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The meteoric rise of the Religious Zionists, a sleight of hand that outdoes master Netanyahu, surprises everyone and delights few. How did this happen, who

Jewish Ledger The Iraqi Jewish Archives. Lost and Found…and LOST? By Carole Basri and Adriana Davis Carole Basri (JTA) – On Jan. 27, 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad as half a million people looked on.  It was the climax of a campaign of persecution that followed the establishment of Israel, which in turn hastened an exodus of what had been a strong and flourishing community. Of the 160,000 Jews who had lived in what is today Iraq...

52 years ago, 9 Jews were hanged in Baghdad - today, their descendants risk losing everything they left behind   February 5, 2021 (JTA) — On Jan. 27, 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad as half a million people looked on.   It was the climax of a campaign of persecution that followed the establishment of Israel, which in turn hastened an exodus of what had been a strong and flourishing community. Of the 160,000 Jews who had lived in what is today Iraq si...

The Jewish News of Northern California

52 years ago, 9 Jews were hanged in Baghdad. Today, their descendants risk losing everything they left behind. January 27, 2021 2:45 pm Ranj Abderrahman Cohen, an Iraqi Kurdish Jewish man, stands at a ruined Jewish synagogue in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 5, 2020. Jews were historically Iraqs second-largest religious sect, comprising 40 percent of Baghdads population according to a 1917 census, before their exhile in 1969. (...