Seventy-five years ago this month, the Iraqi Parliament passed a law permitting Jews to leave the country provided that they ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Who colonized whom? The conventional narrative, repeated with such mechanical regularity that it has calcified into catechism ...

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 ...