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Rosa Doherty

Rosa Doherty

Rosa Doherty is social affairs correspondent for the Jewish Chronicle

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Just who is the real last Jew of Afghanistan?

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November 4, 2021 18:27
In this photograph taken on April 5, 2021, Afghan Jew Zebulon Simentov blows a musical horn 'Shofar' at synagogue, housed in an old building in Kabul. - For decades, Simentov refused to leave Afghanistan -- surviving a Soviet invasion, deadly civil war, brutal rule by the Taliban and the US-led occupation of his homeland. - TO GO WITH 'Afghanistan-Religion-Judaism' FOCUS by Jay DESHMUKH and Usman SHARIFI (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'Afghanistan-Religion-Judaism' FOCUS by Jay DESHMUKH and Usman SHARIFI (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)