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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Matzos from NY Help Last Kabul Jew Keep Passover.

Article from: Israel Faxx Article date: March 27, 2007

By Reuters

Every spring Zebolan Simanto, the last Jew in Afghanistan, receives a care package from New York City.

Simanto uses the matzos, grape juice and oil sent by New York's Afghan Jewish community to conduct the Seder, a meal eaten on the first evening of the Passover holiday to commemorate the enslavement of the Jews in ancient Egypt and their later escape into freedom.

Jack Abraham, the president of Congregation Anshei Shalom, the only Afghan synagogue in the United States, says he started sending the Passover ...

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