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Baghdad
January 17, 2024, 4:28 pm
New play about a Jewish family tells story of a lesser-known Iraq
The Mother of Kamal opens in Highgate after sell-out run last year
By Dina Ibrahim
2HGE41X High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, speaks during a news conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein in Brussels, Belgium, January 20, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool
May 27, 2022, 10:30 am
UK urges Baghdad to repeal law that sees any Iraqi contacting Israel face death
The Foreign Office told Jewish News: "We have expressed strong opposition to the law with leaders across Iraq’s political spectrum and urge them to repeal it at once.”
By Richard Ferrer
2FN8N4H Iraqi demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest to express solidarity with the Palestinian people amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Baghdad, Iraq May 15, 2021. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily
May 26, 2022, 11:05 am
UK ministers in urgent talks with Baghdad over death penalty for contacting Israel
EXCLUSIVE: Government makes dramatic intervention after Jewish News draws attention to bill being discussed in Iraqi parliament
By Jenni Frazer
The Sassoon Synagogue in Mosul is one of four sites in Iraq that are earmarked for priority work
June 12, 2020, 2:44 pm
Iraq and Syria synagogues are earmarked for ‘urgent’ repair
Jewish heritage body says work on ancient shrines, cemeteries and prayer halls must be done while those in the local community who can authorise the work are still able to
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi (Wikipedia/Itzike - איציק אדרי)
August 1, 2019, 10:13 am
Saudi paper alleges Israel attacked Iranian targets in Iraq
London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat cited unnamed sources as saying that Israel used F-35 stealth fighter jets to attack “Iranian advisers” and a shipment of ballistic missile launchers
By JTA
November 16, 2017, 10:56 am
Remember Baghdad: ‘I still feel today like a Babylonian Jew’
A new documentary explores the stories of eight Jews forced to leave the once-flourishing Jewish community of Iraq
By Francine Wolfisz
L-R: Freddy Khalastchi and the ambassador with Freddy's family
February 16, 2017, 2:09 pm
In historic meeting, Iraq envoy hails Jewish Londoner’s Baghdad stamp exhibit
Dr Salih Husain Ali visited an exhibition in London, saluting the historic exhibit giving an insight into Iraq's Jewish history
Lighting candles to commemorate the Farhud at Lauderdale Road Synagogue
June 8, 2016, 11:20 am
Poem commissioned to mark 75-years since Baghdad massacre
The poem was composed and read as a tribute to those who were massacred in the 1941 pogrom
Monument "Prayer" in Ramat Gan in memory of the Jews who were killed in Iraq in the Pogrom Farhud
May 31, 2016, 10:01 am
Candle lighting marks 75 years since Baghdad massacre
27 candles will be lit to symbolise the 27 centuries of Jewish life in the Iraqi capital
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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