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Gibraltar rocks for Moroccan Jews 27 Aug 2013 | 01:58 pm
The Great Synagogue, one of four serving Gibraltar's 600 Jews Two percent of Gibraltarians are Jewish. How come so many Jews live in Gibraltar? Answer: Morocco wanted them there. Derek Taylor explai...
'Jews did not relinquish archive willingly' 27 Aug 2013 | 01:33 am
The large aluminium trunks for storing the archive were supplied by 'tipster' Ahmed Chalabi Must-read in PJMedia by Harold Rhode, who was in Baghdad in 2003 when the Jewish archive was found under se...
An Israeli visits Ezekiel's tomb 26 Aug 2013 | 04:15 pm
With thanks: Lily Not many Israelis have been to Iraq, but the intrepid Tzur Shezaf felt secure enough to reveal his true identity when he visited the tomb of the Biblical prophet Ezekiel in al-Kifl...
Recalling the heroism of Miss Judy 25 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm
Judy Feld Carr receives a medal rewarding her for her heroism from Israel's President Shimon Peres There are many stories about the treatment of Jews in Arab lands that are not reported. Instead we ...
My Jewish mother, by Urdu poet 23 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
This poignant story of a Pakistani poet who finds out his mother was a Baghdadi Jew turns tragic when his Jewish aunts refuse to divulge his mother's whereabouts. (With thanks: Michelle) Family photo...
Is the 'ethnic demon' manufactured? 23 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
The Israeli development town of Yeruham Inspired by an Israeli TV programme on 'the ethnic demon', Seth Frantzman, writing in the Jerusalem Post, joins the fray, blaming the Israeli elites either fo...
Kurdish Israelis want representation 22 Aug 2013 | 01:10 pm
Kurdish Jews are clamouring to be represented at an August 24th conference marking the start of a 3-day conference in Iraqi Kurdistan. Many of the roughly 30 million Kurds worldwide hope will forge a ...
Iraq wants the archive back without the Jews 22 Aug 2013 | 02:57 am
The National Archives in Washington DC, where an exhibition of items from the Jewish archive opens on 11 October prior to the archive's return to Iraq Reminder: Have you signed the petition yet? " ...
Egypt's Jews back army against Brotherhood 21 Aug 2013 | 08:43 pm
Magda Haroun: 'we are not dead yet' It seems that Cairo's Jews will not be celebrating Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year) this September: participants will be prevented from travelling by the curfe...
How my father survived the Farhud 20 Aug 2013 | 12:30 pm
Buckets of hot grease. These were Tiffany Gubbay's family's weapons of choice to protect themselves from the violent mob rampaging through Baghdad's Jewish quarters during the 1941 pogrom known as the...
