Benjamin Kweskin, a Middle East analyst, writes: “Kurds and Jews have a fascinating shared history with roots in ancient times. Many date Jewish presence in what is today Kurdistan to the eighth-century B.C.E., when the Assyrian Empire \u2014 ancestors of the same friendly Assyrian Christians who are today under threat \u2014 conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The conquerors took thousands of Israelite captives into exile, to the \u201ccities of the Medes\u201d \u2014 that is, the predecessors of the Kurds. There was even a Jewish kingdom based in Erbil in the first and second centuries, called Adiabene, or Hadyab.” Read more at The Kurdish Project.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Kweskin, a Middle East analyst, writes: “Kurds and Jews have a fascinating shared history with roots in ancient times. Many date Jewish presence in what is today Kurdistan to the eighth-century B.C.E., when the Assyrian Empire \u2014 ancestors of the same friendly Assyrian Christians who are today under threat \u2014 conquered the Northern Kingdom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[62,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-link","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"category-resources","9":"tag-jews","10":"tag-kurds","11":"post_format-post-format-link"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/derechavraham.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/ATC-logo-featured.jpg?fit=1400%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVWuv-89","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derechavraham.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}