The Tomb of Ezra and the Fate of the Jewish Heritage in Iraq https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/jewish-world/2015/02/the-tomb-of-ezra-and-the-fate-of-the-jewish-heritage-in-iraq/

February 24, 2015 | Lyn Julius
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The ongoing fighting in Iraq and Syria has caused the destruction of many Jewish sites—remnants of once great Jewish communities—and threatened many others. One of them is the tomb of Ezra the Scribe in Iraq, where the nearby synagogue seems to have been turned into a mosque. Lyn Julius reports (with video):

Neglect, destruction, or Islamization are the triple threats facing historic Jewish shrines in Iraq.

Since 2010, there has been concern that the shrine of Ezekiel at Al-Kifl south of Baghdad, the most important of Jewish holy sites in Iraq, was also being converted into a mosque, and Hebrew inscriptions were being painted over. These reports turned out to be mostly false, but one visitor testified to the loudspeakers affixed to the outside to call the Muslim faithful to prayer.

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