05-28-2025, 06:15 PM
(05-28-2025, 01:57 PM)COmentator Wrote: As of MAy 2025 Baghdad has one synagogue while the number of Jews is reported "...has dwindled to just dozens." The head of the head of Iraq’s Jewish community, Khalida Elyahu, 62. The tomb of Rabbi Isaac Gaon [died year 668] has been restored<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/resurrecting-its-past-iraqs-jewish-community-restores-long-forgotten-shrine/|title=Resurrecting its past, Iraq’s tiny Jewish community restores a long-forgotten shrine|website=Times of Israel|date=May 28,2025 |access-date=2025-05-28}}</ref>
Frankly I have never understood any fascination with the continuance of Jewish communities in Exile. I can understand of course concern over their safety, but not about their numbers.
Israel is the ancestral-homeland of the Jewish people, Judaism being an ethnicity as well as a religion, and therefore the Exile ought to end, and the Jewish people realize the significance of supporting and also making their home, in Israel.