Baghdad's last rabbi to leave Iraq....
Sad to think that Baghdad was once 30-40% Jewish....
Baghdad's last remaining rabbi announced on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar that he plans to leave Iraq.
Rabbi Emad Levy, one of about a dozen remaining members of the city's Jewish community, which once topped 100,000, compared his life to "living in a prison" as he broke his Yom Kippur fast Monday evening.
Levy said that his father fled to Israel after Iraq was invaded by the United States in 2003, but he stayed behind to care for a Jewish octogenarian sick with diabetes, The Washington Post reported yesterday.
The man is now in the care of friendly Kurds, Levy said, adding he will exit the country as soon as possible.
Levy said that most Iraqi Jews are homebound out of fear of kidnapping or execution. "It's like I'm living in a prison all the time," he said. "I have no future here. I must go out to have a life for myself.
posted by GayandRight @ 9:30 AM
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Ethnic cleansing of Jews by fascist Arabs/Muslims of the entire middle east is almost complete, Jews only have Israel now.
Ethnic cleansing of Christians is well under way.
Civil war is a bitch isn't it?
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