Only two Jews currently live in the Afghan capital of Kabul, according to The Associated Press. Ishaq Levin, 72, and Zebulon Simentov, 72, live at separate ends of the same decaying synagogue. The synagogue’s sole Torah scroll was confiscated by the ruling Taliban.
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