"Next year," they say, "in Jerusalem." The rallying cry of centuries of Jews is a fading echo this Passover in Baghdad, among a disappearing, dispirited remnant of an ancient and important Jewish ...

WASHINGTON — The tattered Torah scroll fragments, Bibles and other religious texts found in a flooded Baghdad basement 10 years ago testify to a once-thriving Jewish population that's all but ...

The Senate unanimously urged the State Department to renegotiate the terms for the return to Iraq of an archive of Iraqi Jewish texts. The resolution passed Thursday “strongly urges” the department to ...

Herzog warns that rising antisemitism worldwide echoes the hatred that fueled the 1941 massacre of Iraqi Jews.

NEW YORK — The prospect of a population transfer in the Middle East has dominated headlines and ignited fierce debate over the past two weeks. While unpopular in some quarters, population transfers ...

Iraqi workers restore the shrine of the the 10th century Jewish Rabbi Isaac Gaon in central Baghdad's al-Kifah neighborhood — AHMAD AL-RUBAYE In a vibrant Baghdad district, labourers are working ...

Iraq’s Jewish community was one of the oldest in Jewish history, dating back to the 6 th century BCE, hundreds of years before the Muslims established a presence in Iraq. Known as Bavel, it produced ...

When University politics professor Ezra Suleiman was born in Iraq in 1941, it was still possible that Nazis would reach his country and kill him. When he speaks about the looming war with Iraq today, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The horrific attack June 1 in Boulder, Colorado, against predominantly Jews marching to raise awareness for the hostages held in ...

NPR's Hadeel Al-Shalchi tells an unexpected family story from Israel about the friendship of her father and his Iraqi Jewish college friend. The war in Gaza has driven a wedge between many Jews and ...

Federal authorities arrested and charged an Iraqi militant leader with coordinating and planning at least 18 terrorist attacks in Europe that targeted Americans and Jews, all in the name of ending the ...