According to Judith Weiss:

Enough of the coupla thousand civilian occupation workers living and working in various comandeered Saddam palaces are observant Jews that glatt kosher meals are coming out of Saddam's kitchens, and there are well-attended Shabbat services and even daily minyans by the Tigris, where - 2500 years ago - ". . . we sat and wept when we remembered Zion." Gives me chills to think about. There was a Pesach seder held in Ur this spring. That is so cool, let me repeat that: There was a Pesach seder held in Ur this spring.

Babylon was a center of Jewish culture from the destruction of the First Temple in 586 B.C. till long after the redaction of the Talmud around 800 A.D. "There is nothing new under the sun..."