Remarkably, the town of Al Qosh is home to the remains of an ancient Jewish Synagogue, and within its confines, the tomb of Nahum the Elkoshi. The tomb, purported to be 2,700-years-old is guarded by a ...
An Iraqi fighter from the Shiite Al-Abbas popular mobilization unit in the embattled Anbar province west of Baghdad, on May 19, 2015. MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images A 2,700-year-old tomb of a Hebrew ...
For nearly 30 centuries the tomb of the prophet Nahum was an important pilgrimage site for Jews in what is today Kurdish Iraq. But after the founding of Israel in 1948, all its Jewish caretakers began ...
The United States announced Friday that it would contribute an additional $500,000 to help restore the tomb believed to be the resting place of the biblical prophet Nahum in the town of Alqosh in ...
On a spring day in April 2017, two jeeps, their windows blacked out, sped down a sandy highway in Iraqi Kurdistan toward the small Christian village of Alqosh. In the cars sat two Israeli engineers, ...
The LORD is good to those who wait for him, a refuge on the day of distress, Taking care of those who look to him for protection. ―Nahum 1:7 Nahum is the seventh of the Old Testament Minor Prophets ...
A day after arriving in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Michigan rabbi Asher Lopatin woke up at 3 a.m. and set out across the dusty desert landscape for the small town of ...
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