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MANAMA: Ebrahim Nonoo, the head of the Jewish community in Bahrain, speaks to a reporter at the House of Ten Commandments on Sept 4, 2021. - AFP n

Bahrain Jews worship in public again
KHARTOUM: Amin Israil (bottom), the grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan and whose family later converted to Islam, his daughter Salma (left), and Yosar Basha (right), another Sudanese woman descended of Jewish origins, pose for a photo together at Israil's home during an interview. - AFPn

Descendants of Sudan Jews hope to connect with Israel
CASABLANCA: Members of the Moroccan Jewish community pray at the synagogue of Em Habanim on Jan 5, 2021. - AFP nn

Morocco Jews 'already packing' for Israel flights
Members of the Moroccan Jewish community (R) buy pastries at a kosher shop in the western Moroccan port city of Casablanca, on December 11, 2020 - After the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan, Morocco is the fourth Arab country since August to commit to establishing diplomatic relations with the Israel.nIn the 1950s and 60s, Jews from Iraq, Yemen and Morocco migrated to the Jewish state, where key posts were in the hands of Ashkenazi Jews, who hail from Europe. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP)

Morocco's Jews toast Israel deal
Ranj Abderrahman Cohen, an Iraqi Kurdish Jewish man, walks next to a ruined Jewish synagogue in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 5, 2020. - Jews were historically Iraq's second-largest religious sect, comprising 40 percent of Baghdad's population according to a 1917 census. But since the creation of Israel in 1948, regional tensions skyrocketed and anti-Semitic campaigns took hold, pushing most of Iraq's Jews to flee. Today, Iraqis have fond memories of Jewish friends and neighbours, including 82-year-old Farhadi, whose father owned a shop in a Jewish-majority district of Arbil. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)

Iraq's Jews fled long ago, heritage struggles on
WASHINGTON: Former Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld speak during an interview with AFP in Washington, DC. Historian and former Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld deplored a resurgence of ‘anti-Jewish hatred’, two days after a deadly attack on a California synagogue. — AFP

'Anti-Jewish hate' consuming Europe, America: Nazi hunter
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Trump brands Democrats as 'anti-Jewish'
TONDANO, Indonesia: This picture taken on Monday shows Indonesian Jews at a synagogue. — AFP

Jews live in the shadows in Muslim-majority Indonesia
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Ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov from the Mariinsky Ballet performs during a dress rehearsal of 'Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux' at the Saddlers Wells theatre in London, on October 15, 2008. --AFP
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