An enclave of Syrian Jews in Turkey
The entrance to the synagogue in Antakya. A rabbi comes from Istanbul weekly to conduct Shabbat services
Interesting little piece in Haaretz about the tiny Jewish community of Antakya, a community that most Turkish Jews have not heard of. As Jewish Communists do, its leader, Harun Jamal, calls himself an 'Arab Jew' but finds no contradiction between faith and communism. What the article does not explain is that Jamal lives in the disputed border province of Hatay (Alexandretta), which Syria has not officially ceded to Turkey.
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