Nov 23, 2018 · Less than a month after a bloody assault on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, a group from the Kurdish community of the greater Washington DC area visited the city to meet with members of the Jewish community, express their condolences, and show their support.

#Tweety. Holocaust Memorial Day is a reminder that our humanity has come a long way to stop & think about victims of that genocide. Sadly we still have a longer way to prevent genocide against vulnerable peoples globally.

The Iraqi Kurdistan Region comprises parts of the four governorates of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok and Halabja. It borders Syria to the West, Iran to the East and Turkey to the North and the rest of Iraq to the South.

Mar 21, 2005 · By the early 1950s, virtually the entire Jewish community of Kurdistan -- a rugged, mostly mountainous region comprising parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the Caucasus, where Jews had lived since antiquity -- had been completely relocated to Israel. The vast majority of Kurdish Jews, who were primarily concentrated in northern Iraq, left Kurdistan in the mass …

For the first time in four months, when Baghdad began to impose punitive measures on the Kurdistan Region for its independence referendum, a major US official has publicly called for them to end.

Tourism . An ancient culture, beautiful landscapes, a savoury cuisine, and welcoming people – these make Kurdistan an excellent travel destination.

Dec 27, 2018 · Investment in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region has considerably increased over the past few months, reaching $3.67 billion, local officials from the investment board said on Thursday.

Joël Rubinfeld. Joël Rubinfeld is the Founder and President of the Jewish Coalition for Kurdistan. Since the early 2000s, he has been actively involved with Middle Eastern issues and combating antisemitism, being successively Secretary-General of the Belgium-Israel Friendship Society, President of the Jewish Community of Belgium, Vice-President of the European Jewish …

Joël Rubinfeld. President “After a century-long broken promise, time has come for the international community to set right injustice of the past by recognizing the legitimate rights of the Kurdish people.”

Jan 1, 2019 · The Kurds have been treated horribly. Like Jews, they are a religious and secular ethnic group that stands outside the official Christian and Muslim world. They are neither Sunni nor Shia. They are sandwiched between Turkey and Iran, who cannot abide the fiercely independent Kurds. And like the Israelis, they are divided, fractious, and argumentative.