Iraq - Rabbi at Yom Kippur Service Prays: Next Year, Anywhere But in Grim Baghdad

Baghdad, Iraq - As the sun set on the holiest day on the Jewish calendar Monday night, the last rabbi in Baghdad sat down for his last Yom Kippur dinner in Iraq: a piece of cake and two glasses of milk.
Yom Kippur ends with a celebratory feast. But there was, Emad Levy confessed, very little to celebrate this year.

As Levy prepared to end his Yom Kippur prayers, he put special emphasis on the closing line of the service. It is supposed to be accompanied by the blow of the shofar, but Levy didn't have one.
Still, he chanted: "Next year may we be in Jerusalem!"
Levy said he'll settle for London or the Netherlands. Anywhere, really, as long as it's not Iraq.

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