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'Memory is a form of resistance': President Herzog commemorates the Farhud

· By GREER FAY CASHMAN
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Iraq hosts the oldest Jewish Diaspora community in the world. It dates back to the sixth century BCE, when the ancient Judeans were exiled to Babylon following the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem.

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