Yedioth Ahronoth
Zevulun Simantov stands in the center of the dusty synagogue on Flowers Street in Kabul on the eve of the Jewish New Year, and tries to elicit sounds from his shofar.With just one day left before Rosh Hashana, Afghanistan's last remaining Jew is very worried he won't have a minyan.
"This year I'll be alone for the holidays," he told me. "Over the past years Jews from the American army bases and relief organizations came, at least then we had enough for a minyan."
"I pray that one day all the Jews that left will return, and once again the Jewish community will flourish," he said.
Last Afghan Jew alone for holidays
Yedioth Ahronoth
Zevulun Simantov stands in the center of the dusty synagogue on Flowers Street in Kabul on the eve of the Jewish New Year, and tries to elicit sounds from his shofar.
With just one day left before Rosh Hashana, Afghanistan’s last remaining Jew is very worried he won’t have a minyan.
“This year I’ll be alone for the holidays,” he told me. “Over the past years Jews from the American army bases and relief organizations came, at least then we had enough for a minyan.”
“I pray that one day all the Jews that left will return, and once again the Jewish community will flourish,” he said.
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