May 2025 LAst Jews still In Iraq

[COmentator]

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>

[Robert]

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.

[ctjacobs]

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.

No. If they are all in Israel they are a sitting duck. There should be Jews elsewhere just in case.

[Robert]

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.

No. If they are all in Israel they are a sitting duck. There should be Jews elsewhere just in case.

I am pleased that contributor " ctjacobs" is rather certain about their answer, but am just wondering if they could back up their viewpoint (to which they are entitled) by reference to the Holocaust? 

No, I don't think so!