Iraqi Jewish Association of Ontario & Beit Eliahou

04/18/2019

Singing with 2,000 other Jews from T.O. at this great event

04/18/2019

Members reading the Megillah

03/18/2019

Our Iraqi Jewish cooking class turns to making “the intestines of the wretched Haman” (zangoula)

07/22/2018

A Jewish cemetery in Sadr City District of Baghdad, Iraq. April 2018.

04/25/2018

Remember Baghdad coming to TJFF: May 9 - 6:00PM at Innis Town Hall and
May 11 - 12:00PM at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk 5

The attitude used to be “Jews, Muslims, Christians, we were all Iraqis.” For over 2500 years, Jews were an integral community in modern Iraq. However, over the last 80 years, Iraq has been depleted of its Jewish community through three significant waves, leaving an estimated 5 remaining Jews as ...

03/29/2018

Urban Sephardic Culture in the Ottoman Empire By Yaron Ben-Naeh

An overlooked golden age of Jewish culture flowered in the cities of Istanbul, Edirne, Salonica, Izmir, Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, and Alexandria—where almost no Jews live today

03/29/2018

Urban Sephardic Culture in the Ottoman Empire : Iraqi Jewish Association Of Ontario By Yaron Ben-Naeh

An overlooked golden age of Jewish culture flowered in the cities of Istanbul, Edirne, Salonica, Izmir, Aleppo, Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo, and Alexandria—where almost no Jews live today

03/29/2018

Farhud memories: 1 June 1941, a Nazi-inspired pogrom erupted in Baghdad. Some Jewish children witnessed the bloodshed, and retain vivid memories 70 years later.

On 1 June 1941, a Nazi-inspired pogrom erupted in Baghdad. Jewish children who witnessed the bloodshed recall the events 70 years later

02/14/2018

Extraordinary Story Of Iraqi Jewish Life On View (for the next few months) At Breman Museum in Atlantahttps://www.wabe.org/extraordinary-story-iraqi-jewish-life-view-now-breman-museum/

02/14/2018

Iraqi Jews, Al Jazeera and Theft. "Whose trauma is it anyway? Al Jazeera doesn't get it.

After taking control of Baghdad from Saddam Hussein, US troops discovered what came to be called the Iraqi-Jewish archive in the waterlogged basement of the Iraqi secret police headquarters. This priceless collection of Jewish books and documents was shipped to the US for restoration at a cost of $3...

02/14/2018

IJAO Purim Party – 2018 : Iraqi Jewish Association Of Ontario

01/21/2018

The Baghdadi Jews of India

The Persian Gulf port of Basra began to serve as a trading center of the British East India Company in 1760, and it was from Basra–and Baghdad–that many Jews who played an important role in English commerce in the region gradually moved on to India. At first they settled in the west coast port o...