Rabbi Mendy Chitrik’s Three Week Trip Through Turkey
Few Jews know Turkey like Mendy Chitrik, a rabbi who oversees kosher certification in dozens of factories across the country.
Over the past 20 years, Chitrik, a Chabad emissary who was born in Israel, has been logging thousands of miles annually across that country, which is larger than Texas and whose 12,000 Jews almost all live in the capital city of Istanbul.
He’s made some discoveries along the way, from previously undocumented gravesites to observant Jews living far from Istanbul to unusual customs borne of cooperation with local Muslims.
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