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From Yemen to Bukhara: The many ways Jews celebrate Sukkot (opens the original)
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Few holidays display the extraordinary variety of Jewish life quite like Sukkot. The basic requirements are the same whether a sukkah stands in Jerusalem, New York, Casablanca or Samarkand. Jews dwell in a temporary structure and take the “Four Species” or “Four Kinds” prescribed by the Torah. But over the centuries, communities around the world added their own touches, drawing on the plants, flowers, foods, and decorative traditions of the places where they lived. The result is a remarkable col
Jews, tea and war in Sri Lanka (opens the original)
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On Friday night, Aug. 14, an angry crowd gathered outside a new Chabad center in the Sri Lankan beach town of Hiriketiya as Jews were preparing to welcome Shabbat. More than 100 protesters, including Buddhist monks, reportedly took part. They hurled stones and firecrackers at the building, and a window was shattered. The unrest resumed the following night. What made the episode all the more striking is that Jewish life is hardly something new to Sri Lanka. Long before Israeli backpackers began f
Azerbaijan is a Jewish story written in three alphabets (opens the original)
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In a small museum in northern Azerbaijan sit two objects that tell a surprisingly long story. They are a pair of tefillin so tiny that the black boxes are barely a centimeter wide. During the Soviet era, when openly observing Judaism invited trouble, Jews could conceal them beneath a hat or sleeve. Today, the tefillin are displayed in the Museum of Mountain Jews in Qırmızı Qəsəbə, or Red Village, across the Kudyal River from the Muslim city of Quba. The museum occupies the restored Karchag Synag
Costa Rica’s remarkable Jewish story (opens the original)
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Rebeca Grynspan, a Costa Rican Jew, emerged on July 30 as the early frontrunner in the first informal U.N. Security Council poll to select the world body’s next secretary-general. A former vice president of Costa Rica, Grynspan received 10 “encourage” votes from the council’s 15 members, one more than her nearest rival. The poll was nonbinding and more rounds are expected, but if Grynspan ultimately prevails, she would become both the first woman and the first Jew to lead the United Nations. Her
Pakistan’s vanished Jewish legacy (opens the original)
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For the Jews of Karachi, Pakistan, Friday evenings once followed a familiar rhythm. A century ago, as the sun descended over the Arabian Sea, families would make their way to the Magain Shalome Synagogue to welcome the Sabbath. Women had already lit Shabbat candles before leaving home. Men greeted one another at the entrance while children settled beside parents and grandparents. Soon the sanctuary filled with the sounds of Hebrew prayer, recited in the distinctive cadence of the Bene Israel Jew
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