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myanmar
Charmaine Craig Ponders Her Mixed Jewish and Karen Heritage in ‘Miss Burma’
Eitan Arom
January 3, 2018
Myanmar’s lone synagogue honored by historical group
Jewish Journal
June 9, 2016
Myanmar’s only synagogue was recognized by a Yangon historical organization.
Meet the family behind Burma’s last synagogue
Jewish Journal
October 28, 2015
In the center of downtown Yangon (formerly Rangoon), just off the city’s main thoroughfare of Mahabandoola Street, stands Burma’s only remaining synagogue, Musmeah Yeshua.
Are Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims the world’s ‘least wanted’ people?
Jared Sichel
June 4, 2015
Abu Tahay, a Rohingya Muslim activist who lives in Myanmar, says his people face a simple calculus when deciding whether to remain in their western Myanmar homes or escape via the Andaman Sea on overcrowded, hopelessly equipped fishing boats: “Do — or die.”
Leader of Myanmar’s Jewish community dies
Jewish Journal
June 1, 2015
The leader of Myanmar’s small Jewish community and the caretaker of the country’s only synagogue has died.
In Burmese Chanukah celebration, signs of Myanmar’s openness to the West
Jewish Journal
January 3, 2012
In almost any other community from Moscow to Washington, it would have been just another public Chanukah menorah-lighting ceremony providing an opportunity for the local government and Jewish community to showcase their strong ties.
Briefs: Methodists don’t ‘divest,’ Jewish groups mobilize for Myanmar, Reno TV anchor sues
Jewish Journal
May 9, 2008
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