Rabbi Elie Abadie

Senior Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the United Arab Emirates


Appears in these episodes:

For International Farhud Remembrance Day, we ask: Is it coming to America? Are anti-Jewish arson, murder, and riots coming—this summer? We commemorate the horrific Arab-Nazi pogrom inflicted on the Jewish citizens of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities on June 1–2,1941—The Farhud. This violent dispossession was the beginning of the Nazi-style process of persecution and exclusion that would conclude with the expulsion of the Jews and the end of the 2,700-year-old Iraqi Jewish community. Yossie Hollander, Rabbi Elie Abadie, Sheldon Freilich, and Juda Engelmayer join Edwin to ask whether and when—and where—the next murderous riot might come to America.

After the establishment of Israel, Arab nations stripped their Jewish citizens of their property, funds, and citizenship, and expelled them. Will this happen next in Dagestan? Moscow? New York City?

Rabbi Elie Abadie and ZOA-MI President Sheldon Freilich join Edwin for another look at the horrid possibilities, Rabbi Manes Kogan provides additional reporting, and Nathan Lewin updates us on the lawsuit recently filed by the Brandeis Center against UC Berkeley.

AI is already reshaping how wars are fought. Foreign policy analyst Josh Block joins Edwin for an urgent look at the military impact of AI. How bad can it get?

Rabbi Elie Abadie, Juda Engelmayer, David Suissa, and Zalmi Unsdorfer provide additional reporting.

On this day, we remember the horrific Arab-Nazi pogrom inflicted on the Jewish citizens of Baghdad on June 1–2, 1941—The Farhud.

This violent dispossession was the beginning of the Nazi-style process of persecution and exclusion that would conclude with the expulsion of Iraqi Jews and the end of the 2,700-year-old Iraqi Jewish community. Rabbi Elie Abadie, senior rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates, and Middle East scholar Mordechai Kedar join Edwin to explore whether this can happen again—and the two most likely places.

[Ed. note: We asked the question: Where next? Our prediction of “Israel” proved to be tragically accurate when, on October 7, 2023, at the end of Sukkot, Hamas massacred some 1,400 individuals in Israel.]

The annual commemoration, observed worldwide, was inaugurated by author Edwin Black and proclaimed on June 1, 2015, at United Nations Headquarters in a globally live-streamed event.

Yom HaGirush, November 30, commemorates the coordinated expulsion of Jews from Arab nations. After the 1948 founding of the modern state of Israel, most Arab nations followed the Nazi model of dispossessing and expelling their Jewish populations, planning to overload Israel’s ability to take them in. Some 850,000 men, women, and children were ejected—often with only the clothes on their backs. Many have forgotten. We have not. Mideast scholar Mordechai Kedar and Gulf States Senior Rabbi Elie Abadie join Edwin.

Yom HaGirush, November 30, commemorates the coordinated expulsion of Jews from Arab nations. After the 1948 founding of the modern state of Israel, most Arab nations followed the Nazi model of dispossessing and expelling their Jewish populations, often to overload Israel’s ability to take them in. Some 850,000 were expelled penniless and stateless. Lyn Julius, co-founder of HARIF-UK, and Elie Abadie, senior rabbi of the UAE, join Edwin Black, author of The Farhud and originator of International Farhud Day.

The launch of the new, critically acclaimed, and fast-selling book Values That Shape the World by Faye Lincoln. Her work forces us to ask how society got here—and where we are going. Esteemed Rabbi Elie Abadie from Dubai, famed constitutional attorney Nathan Lewin, and  Hudson Institute foreign policy fellow Josh Block join Edwin and the author to confront the issues.

On August 16, 2021, 3pm ET, in partnership with Barnes & Noble, attend a special global launch event for the critically acclaimed Values That Shape the World by author Faye Lincoln. On hand to help her launch her ambitious new volume is famed New York Times bestselling Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust, esteemed Rabbi Elie Abadie, Senior Rabbi in Dubai, and renown crisis manager Juda Engelmayer. Your questions will be taken live.

Powerful. A powerful and detailed grasp of Biblical ethics and how they have shaped—and continue to shape—our world through the ages. This is a book many need right now.
- Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust.

Pathfinding. With tenacious precision, unifies the written word of the Bible and the history of men to create a pathfinding book … which promises to shape the lives of many in this world, now and in the future.
- Martin Barillas, author of Shaken Earth.

Uplifting. At a time when values are being overturned and discarded, Faye Lincoln’s Values That Shape the World provides an uplifting reminder of how we got here, and the teachings we need to grasp to move  forward in peace and strength.
- Erick Stakelbeck, host of The Watchman.

On August 15, 2021, 3pm ET, in partnership with Amazon worldwide, attend a special global launch event for the critically acclaimed Values That Shape the World by author Faye Lincoln. On hand to help her launch her ambitious new volume is famed New York Times bestselling Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust, esteemed Rabbi Elie Abadie, Senior Rabbi in Dubai, and Erick Stakelbeck, on-air host of The Watchman. Your questions will be taken live.

Powerful. A powerful and detailed grasp of Biblical ethics and how they have shaped—and continue to shape—our world through the ages. This is a book many need right now.
- Edwin Black, author of IBM and the Holocaust. 

Pathfinding. With tenacious precision, unifies the written word of the Bible and the history of men to create a pathfinding book … which promises to shape the lives of many in this world, now and in the future.
- Martin Barillas, author of Shaken Earth.

Uplifting. At a time when values are being overturned and discarded, Faye Lincoln’s Values That Shape the World provides an uplifting reminder of how we got here, and the teachings we need to grasp to move  forward in peace and strength.
- Erick Stakelbeck, host of The Watchman.

Remember the hundreds who died in Baghdad on June 1, 1941—the beginning of the end of Jewry in Iraq. Can it happen again—in Europe or the United States?

Edwin Black, who originated International Farhud Day and is the New York Times bestselling author of The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust, is joined by Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Lyn Julius of HARIF, Rabbi Elie Abadie, Council of Sages, UAE, and Zalmi Unsdorfer of Likud UK to ask the uncomfortable questions.