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'Afghanistan’s Last Jew'


"The New York Times" has a short documentary on Zablon Simantov, who claims to be the last Jewish resident of Kabul.

He says the Taliban offered him $50,000 to convert to Islam. And he offered them $80,000 to become a Jew.

Watch it here.

-- Luke Allnutt

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