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After centuries in India, the last Cochin Jews try to keep their history alive

After centuries in India, the last Cochin Jews try to keep their history alive
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As the sun set over Kochi’s historic Jew Town neighborhood, Keith Hallegua donned a gray kippah and began a solitary walk to the synagogue at the end of his cobbled street. It was Shavuot, the Jewish holiday commemorating God giving the Torah to Moses. Hallegua reached the 458-year-old Paradesi S...

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