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Last update - 21:57 04/10/2006 Baghdad's last rabbi to leave Iraq By News Agencies BAGHDAD - Baghdad's last remaining rabbi announced on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar that he plans to leave Iraq. Rabbi Emad Levy, one of about a dozen remaining members of the city's Jewish community, which once topped 100,000, compared his life to "living in a prison" as he broke his Yom Kippur fast Monday evening. Levy said that his father fled to Israel after Iraq was invaded by the United States in 2003, but he stayed behind to care for a Jewish octogenarian sick with diabetes, The Washington Post reported yesterday. Advertisement The man is now in the care of friendly Kurds, Levy said, adding he will exit the country as soon as possible. Levy said that most Iraqi Jews are homebound out of fear of kidnapping or execution. "It's like I'm living in a prison all the time," he said. "I have no future here. I must go out to have a life for myself. "What should I do?" he continued. "Of course this is not the way Yom Kippur should be. When you are alone, it is very different than when you do it in the synagogue or with a lot of people. It is sad. This is why I must leave for the Holy Land." Bookmark to del.icio.us   Sex, lies and videotape 3 Kibbutz Ein Gedi residents suspected of filming themselves raping Danish tourists. Big brother is watching An IDF soldier has been jailed for posting sensitive photos on Facebook.   1.   good luck rabbi 23:10  |  gershon 04/10/06   2.   DO NOT LEAVE. CHABAD IS THERE PROVIDING SERVICES JEWISH SOLDIERS 23:19  |  -VOICE of MOSHIACH)) 04/10/06   3.   YOU HAVE OBLIGATIONS TO REMAINING JEWS.CAPTAIN DOSN`T LEAVE)))))) 23:21  |  -VOICE of MOSHIACH)) 04/10/06   4.   Sign of the times. Very sad. 23:57  |  Ziad 04/10/06   5.   IRAQ IS NOT A PLACE FOR JEWS ANYMORE 00:10  |  Yochanan 05/10/06   6.   #1 Funny comment Gershon! 00:15  |  Sam 05/10/06   7.   American Jews 02:17  |  Friend 05/10/06   8.   Good Luck to you Rabbi 02:20  |  Paul 05/10/06   9.   Leave now when you are under the protection of the US? 03:01  |  Wonderer 05/10/06   10.   Good move 03:50  |  Tzvi 05/10/06   11.   Jews for Israel 03:53  |  Joven 05/10/06   12.   Jews in Iran 04:56  |  Ahmad 05/10/06   13.   1#gershon 05:39  |  Sam 05/10/06   14.   Re: Jews in Iran 05:40  |  Raymond from DC 05/10/06   15.   Almost 1 million Iraqis left too 05:42  |  Marilyn 05/10/06   16.   Brave Iraqi Rabbi 06:09  |  C. Al-Thifairy 05/10/06   17.   Glad to Hear Another Jew Coming To Israel 07:21  |  Ben Israel 05/10/06   18.   Why so afraid of Israel`s masters? 08:33  |  Brigitte Meier 05/10/06   19.   Brigitte Meier, Everett, MA 10:41  |  Jack 05/10/06   20.   Brigitte Meier and Marilyn from Australia 10:44  |  Jack 05/10/06   21.   Welcome Home 11:22  |  Naomi 05/10/06   22.   Indeed, it`s odd Jews are leaving... 11:36  |  Edith 05/10/06   23.   Rabbi leaving iraq 12:12  |  fk 05/10/06   24.   Yochanen #5: Baghdad isn`t for anyone at the moment!! 12:26  |  Freddy 05/10/06   25.   Leaving Iraq 12:46  |  Tareq 05/10/06   26.   Freddy #24 You are so right..The Torah predicts it 13:31  |  Yochanan 05/10/06   27.   no Achmad,# 12. Jews never afraid of American. 13:32  |  israel lover 05/10/06   28.   To #6 Sam from Canada AMONG FAMILY 13:46  |  Alfred Brodner 05/10/06   29.   There are 1.5 billion muslims Yanaton 14:10  |  Marilyn 05/10/06   30.   Hi Marilyn 14:19  |  rabbibluto 05/10/06   31.   Chabad - Voice of Moshiach 14:23  |  Bob 05/10/06   32.   Rabbi in Iraq?? 14:25  |  Bob 05/10/06   33.   Rabbi leaving Irag -fk 14:29  |  Bob 05/10/06   34.   "Jew-centric" comment by Marilyn 14:52  |  Jake in Texas 05/10/06   35.   Kol Hakavod Rav Levy 15:00  |  Alex 05/10/06   36.   Freedom 15:26  |  SJ 05/10/06   37.   Jews in Iran Response to #12 15:47  |  Simon 05/10/06   38.   # 12 Iran is not Arab read # 14 and the rest of the responce Re. 16:32  |  robin 05/10/06   39.   Baruj HaBa L`Bait ShelJa 18:29  |  Jonathan Wortman 05/10/06   40.   Responses to Nos. 9 & 22 18:46  |  Mike 05/10/06   41.   Response to #5 19:05  |  Hisham 05/10/06   42.   Saddam protected the Jews 19:21  |  John 05/10/06   43.   Response to John`s "Saddam protected the Jews" 19:58  |  Noam 05/10/06   44.   Under the care of friendly Kurds 19:58  |  Jake 05/10/06   45.   To Hisham #41 20:01  |  avi 05/10/06   46.   Sam from Canada, you are deluding yourself 20:03  |  Jake 05/10/06   47.   #2 VOM 20:21  |  KACH 613 05/10/06   48.   To the Chabad 20:40  |  Litvak 05/10/06   49.   Thank You Avi 20:40  |  Hisham 05/10/06   50.   Hisham, Avi 22:03  |  krystal 05/10/06   51.   What would Yazpan say about it? 22:20  |  krystal 05/10/06   52.   Krystal, actually the Jews orginated in Aramaea 22:55  |  Jake 05/10/06   53.   To Litvak #48 22:59  |  Alan 05/10/06   54.   #12 23:22  |  Jane 05/10/06   55.   #41 23:25  |  Jane 05/10/06   56.   12, there are more than that in Iran 23:44  |  Fritz 05/10/06   57.   Ingathering of the exiles. 11:35  |  sandra chitayat 06/10/06   58.   to voice of mochiach 11:43  |  sandra chitayat 06/10/06   59.   to Sandra 13:06  |  Hilda 06/10/06   60.   to Sam of Canada 15:41  |  Joseph Blake 06/10/06   61.   rabbi leaving iraq 16:53  |  ernie 06/10/06   62.   re. John. How Saddam Protected People 12:09  |  Efox 07/10/06   63.   re. Jane 12:15  |  Efox 07/10/06   64.   re. VOICE of MOSHIACH 12:24  |  Efox 07/10/06   65.   Does "Unholy" Joe Lieberman know this? 21:00  |  Janice 07/10/06   66.   Who said? 15:02  |  H 08/10/06   67.   Iraq is not a place for anyone anymore! 11:05  |  Maureen Ann 30/11/07   68.   Kurds likes Israilis and Jews 01:14  |  Azad Kirkukli 24/04/08

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