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US President Donald Trump, center, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, right, and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, at a trilateral signing ceremony in White House, August 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
August 22, 2025, 4:28 pm
After decades of conflict, Armenia-Azerbaijan peace plan gives Caucasus Jews new hope
Jewish communities in the two former Soviet countries have had no communication, while Armenian ties to Israel have been strained over arms sales to its foe. All that may change
By Larry Luxner
Rabbi Shneor Segal speaks at a conference on Jewish heritage at the Azerbaijan University of Languages, August 30, 2023. (Screenshot/Dahan Center via YouTube/Peleg Levy)
April 5, 2025, 7:54 pm
Iran enlisted drug trafficker in failed plot to kill Azerbaijan rabbi — report
Washington Post says Rabbi Shneor Segal was target of Iranian plot, had $200,000 placed on his head; Segal says he only learned of matter through media, still feels safe
By ToI Staff
Mamagama band members, from left, Arif Imanov, Asaf Mishiyev and Hasan Heydar (Tato Panahi)
April 5, 2025, 7:58 am
Azerbaijan is sending a Jewish singer to Eurovision with a message of ‘peace and love’
Asaf Mishiyev, the lead singer of Mamagama, says he never faces antisemitism in Baku, and offers support to Israel’s Yuval Raphael: ‘We’re proud of her and we hope she will shine’
By Amy Spiro
Illustrative: Matzahs travel on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine, December 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
March 26, 2021, 11:18 pm
Why Jews in former Soviet Union eat most matzah per capita
In Azerbaijan people consume 2.7 pounds per person, in Russia 2.4 pounds — dwarfing the average consumption of unleavened bread cracker among most Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this Feb. 19, 2016, file photo, The Trump International Hotel, the highest building, is seen in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Aida Sultanova, File)
March 11, 2019, 7:50 pm
First kosher restaurant set to open in Azerbaijan
New eatery in Jewish area in central Baku will combine Azeri cuisine with Middle Eastern Israeli dishes
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Arnold Zeligman, left, teaching Hebrew to Bella Regimov, wearing head cover, and other students at The Jewish House in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 18, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
August 19, 2018, 2:41 am
Sale of Azerbaijan’s Jewish center is a painful blow to a dwindling community
As a shrinking population forces the JDC to consolidate resources, the seniors who use the facility ask if it’s worth the savings to deprive a cohort that will soon be gone anyway
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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