“Israel is my country as a Jew. Azerbaijan is my country as an Azeri,” Isayev, 40, told the Jewish Telegraphic agency. He was born in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, but grew up in Israel and ...
Pisakh Isakov of the Mountain Jewish community showed me the village’s oldest synagogue, the Six Dome Synagogue, built in 1888. Isakov, 70, said Jews have lived peacefully alongside Muslim and ...
Twenty-two people were arrested in Azerbaijan in March on suspicion of planning to attack American, Israeli and Jewish targets, including the U.S. and Israeli embassies, a Jewish Agency for Israel ...
The Jewish communal buildings are prominently ... While Ashkenazi Jews only reached Azerbaijan in numbers in the last 185 years with the oil boom, some say the Mountain Jews can trace back their ...
Last week, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters following visits to Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan that his country had severed all ties with the Jewish State, a former ally.
The restoration of the building and the establishment of the museum symbolize Azerbaijan’s efforts to preserve the heritage of the region’s dwindling Jewish community.” The Jewish community ...
In advance of the international climate conference in Azerbaijan, rabbis and community leaders visited the Jewish community in Baku and the Jewish town of the Quba region.
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof canceled his trip to the United Nations climate summit in Azerbaijan after attacks ... and he will meet with various Jewish organizations to discuss antisemitism ...
Delegation of over 100 will be subject to restrictions on movement given country's proximity to Iran; Israeli pavilion to hold dozens of events, with 20 companies exhibiting ...