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Ceen Gabbai was born and raised as a Jew in Iraq, and received asylum in the United States in 2015. She now lives in Brooklyn. (Courtesy of Gabbai)
October 4, 2019, 1:57 am
What it was like growing up as a hidden Jew in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Ceen Gabbai survived 2003 invasion, received asylum in US; in home country, family had to move 5 times due to anti-Semitism, but her Muslim friends secretly recorded ‘Hatikvah’
By Ben Sales
The cover page of an Israeli Foreign Ministry Facebook page, 'Israel in Iraqi dialect,' launched in May 2018 (screen shot: Facebook)
January 6, 2019, 9:47 pm
Three Iraqi delegations said to make unprecedented Israel visits, meet officials
TV report says secret taboo-busting trips arranged with goal of building basis for future ties; delegates tour Yad Vashem, meet academics, discuss Iraqi Jewish heritage
By TOI staff
President George H.W. Bush speaking in 1993. (Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images via JTA)
December 1, 2018, 9:12 am
Bush, a president who grappled with Jewish leaders, engineered rescue of Jews
The 41st president, who died Friday, had an often contentious relationship with the community and Israel, but his legacy has come to be viewed far more kindly
By Ron Kampeas
In this May 11, 2008 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush arrives on the South Lawn of White House in Washington (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)
December 1, 2018, 8:12 am
Former US president George H.W. Bush dies at age 94
Youngest pilot in the Navy, his stellar political career saw him preside during collapse of Soviet Union and final months of Cold War; term marked by tensions with Shamir, US Jews
By AP and JTA
Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are seen at an annual military parade in front of the mausoleum of the late Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran on September 22, 2014. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi/File)
May 23, 2018, 9:33 pm
Iran: If US attacks, its leaders will face same fate as Saddam
‘There is no doubt that the Americans will be defeated,’ says supreme leader Khamenei
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri delivers a speech during a military parade marking the 36th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, on September 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
May 23, 2018, 12:09 pm
Tehran rejects Pompeo demands, vows to push ahead with weapons development
Iran’s military chief says US is imposing sanctions because it is afraid to face Iran in battle, accuses Washington of acting for Israeli interests
By Michael Bachner
The Wadi al-Salam, or "Valley of Peace" cemetery which contains the graves of victims of violence of Iraq’s contemporary history, from the ruinous 1980-88 war with Iran to the costly 1990-91 conflict over Kuwait and 13 years of uninterrupted bloodshed starting with the U.S. led invasion in 2003. (AP Photo)
April 30, 2018, 6:08 am
Iran said to destroy mass graves of those executed in 1988
Authorities said to be targeting burial sites of up to 5,000 people killed in purge at end of bloody war with Iraq
By Jon Gambrell
In this picture taken on September 13, 2017, activists of the International campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) wear masks of US President Donald Trump (R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un as they demonstrate in front of the US embassy in Berlin. (AFP/dpa/Britta Pedersen)
March 8, 2018, 12:30 pm
For Pyongyang, Mideast offers cautionary nuclear tale
Holding nuclear, chemical weapons gives leaders leverage, while giving them up can end pariah status, bring economic benefits
By AP
Centuries-old books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish archive await preservation. (photo credit: Courtesy The National Archives)
December 13, 2017, 4:03 pm
Now-dispersed Iraqi Jewish community fights for access to its legacy
With a stolen trove of historical documents slated for return to Baghdad, Jews from Iraq demand their personal effects back — with many of their Muslim former neighbors’ support
By Reut R. Cohen
Stephen M. Flatow
November 6, 2017, 3:40 pm
Stephen M. Flatow
A slap in America’s face
There’s a new statue honoring Saddam Hussein in the Palestinian Authority city of Qalqilya
Palestinian Hitler Abu Hamad, deputy head at a school, sits at his office in the West Bank city of Hebron, on September 26, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER)
November 3, 2017, 6:08 am
A Hebron teacher named Hitler: Palestinians reckon with loaded names
Palestinian man formerly named Saddam Hussein says it was ‘the source of psychological and physical suffering’
By AFP and TOI staff
Inauguration ceremony of memorial to Saddam Hussein in the West Bank city of Qalqilya on October 18, 2017. (Qalqilya Municipality Facebook page)
October 20, 2017, 8:22 pm
West Bank city erects memorial to Saddam Hussein
Qalqilya district governor praises Iraqi dictator’s dedication to the cause of ‘Arabism,’ says Palestinian leader Abbas walks in his path
By TOI staff
In this April 6, 2005 file photo, Kurdish youngsters celebrate the election of then Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in downtown Sulaimaniyah, Iraq. (AP/Sasa Kralj, File)
October 4, 2017, 1:23 pm
Iraqi Kurds mourn death of leader Talabani, symbol of unity
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi refers to the former president as ‘a sincere partner in building a new democratic Iraq’
By SUSANNAH GEORGE
Iraqi forces advance on September 23, 2017 to recapture the insurgent stronghold of Hawija after retaking the nearby northern town of Sharqat from the Islamic State group on the second day of a new offensive. (AFP/ AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
September 24, 2017, 3:06 am
Iraq says it wants world’s help to build nuclear reactor
Over 35 years after Israeli strike on Osirak, oil-rich country still partially held by IS says it has rights to nuclear power under NonProliferation Treaty
By AP and TOI staff
Volunteers attempt to recover Iraqi Jewish archival material from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, 2003. (Harold Rhode, Courtesy of the US National Archives)
September 8, 2017, 11:06 pm
Despite protests, US to return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq
Historic Iraqi Jewish Archive had been found in flooded basement of the Iraqi secret services headquarters in Baghdad after Second Gulf War
By Josefin Dolsten
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