Bill reportedly also forbids 'financial or moral assistance' to Jewish state, raising concern for Iraq's Jewish community; British Jewish leader from Iraq calls bill 'barbaric'
Journalist and novelist Sigal Samuel honors her Iraqi Jewish heritage with picture book about Osnat Barazani, whose life was a real-life early Yentel story set in the Middle East
Some 400 families of Jewish descent still live in Iraqi Kurdistan, once home to a thriving community; some now practice their faith in secret, while others have converted to Islam
A chance meeting with British geologists spurred many of Kurdistan's Jews to move to Israel in the early 1900s, where they made an impression on its founders
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