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Iraq

a plate of weed nuggets next to three joints
Posted inLetters

Put public health before cannabis cafés; Wake-up call for liberal Jews; etc.

by J. Readers March 7, 2023

Anonymity is a cop-out I read that “an anonymous group of anti-Zionist Jewish activists” wants to take credit for defacing a billboard that touted the message that anti-Zionism is antisemitism […]

Debórah Eliezer plays a multitude of characters in "(dis)Place[d]." (Photo/Wendy Yalom)
Posted inTheater

‘(dis)Place[d]’: One-woman show is a journey through generations of Iraqi Jews

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 28, 2022September 28, 2022
Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi at the parliament building in Baghdad, Aug. 28, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ludovic Marin-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

The US and Israel want to unite the Middle East against Iran. Iraq could pose a problem.

by Ron Kampeas and JTA July 15, 2022July 15, 2022
Iraqi leaders and activists attend a conference calling for the normalization of relations between Iraq and Israel in Erbil, Iraq on Sept. 24, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Safin Hamed-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Iraq issues arrest warrant against activists who called for normalization of ties with Israel

Ben Sales by Ben Sales and JTA September 27, 2021
The tomb of the biblical prophet Nahum in Alqosh, Iraq. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy ARCH International)
Posted inWorld

Close to crumbling, the tomb of an ancient prophet is saved in Kurdish Iraq

David Ian Klein by David Ian Klein and Forward September 22, 2021
A man stands at a ruined Jewish synagogue in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 5, 2020. Jews were historically Iraq's second-largest religious sect, comprising 40 percent of Baghdad's population according to a 1917 census, before their exile in 1969. (Photo/JTA-Safin Hamed-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

52 years ago, 9 Jews were hanged in Baghdad. Today, their descendants risk losing everything they left behind.

Carole BasriAdriana Davis by Carole Basri, Adriana Davis and JTA January 28, 2021February 10, 2021
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Posted inBay Area, News

Local agencies helping refugees ensnared in immigrant ban

by Rob Gloster February 7, 2017February 7, 2017

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