Prominent Iraqi-British Jew says urgent action needed to save Mosul’s last synagogue
Urgent action is needed to help save one of Iraq’s last remaining synagogues from crumbling beyond repair, an Iraqi-British Jewish philanthropist has warned. Mosul’s Sassoon Synagogue, which dates back to 1902 and was once the heart of a 6,000-strong thriving local Jewish community, has become a rubbish dump, with its ritual bath - or “mikveh” - now a barn for horses, according to Edwin Shuker who was born in Baghdad but fled to the UK to seek asylum in 1971.