Senate Minority Leader: Don’t return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq
"Since the exile of Jews from Iraq virtually no Jewish life remains in the country – this treasured collection belongs to the Jewish community and should be made available to them.”
A Babylonian Talmud from Vienna, 1793. This volume was among the items recovered from the flooded basement of Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters.(photo credit: NATIONAL ARCHIVES)ByJOSEFIN DOLSTEN/JTA