In her memoir “Always Carry Salt,” Samantha Ellis builds “an ark” for the next generation of her family. It involves culture, cuisine, and history.

A Jewish family that fled Iraq generations ago rented its home to France for use as an embassy, but Paris long ago stopped paying it rent, after Iraq stripped Jews of property.

Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Omar Mohammad, Professor of Middle East History at Sciences Po. Throughout his ...

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 ...

A Jewish family is suing France over its embassy in Baghdad. It seeks compensation for what it says is France's use of ...

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 ...

I grew up on stories of exile. My family was forced out of Iraq and Tunisia for being Jewish — homes stolen, communities erased and history rewritten. To this day, too many people insist it was ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The war in Gaza has driven a wedge between many Jews and Muslims in the U.S. and around the world. These tensions stretch back decades. But there was a time when Jews and Muslims lived together ...