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The Last Jew in Afghanistan

Posted Jul 19, 2007 4:58 PM CDT

(Newser) – Kabul resident Zabolon Simantov is quite literally the last Afghan Jew. He is the sole remaining member of a community that once numbered 4000. He stays, he says, to keep the country's Jewish history alive. In this all-Muslim country, he has been pressured to... Read full story »

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