| A hundred year- old, gold-domed mosque is destroyed by terrorists, and thousands of articles are written about the outrageous act. At the same time, a sovereign government -not criminals- destroy a hundred-year old synagogue in Tajikistan to make way for the president's "palace" and no one has even heard about it. Where is the world's outrage? Bukharian Jews have lived in Tajikistan for over 1,000 years without experiencing anti-Semitism. They were joined by a small Ashkenazi presence following World War II. In 1995, the Dushanbe synagogue and several Jewish homes were broken into and ransacked. From this event, fear caused many Jews from Dushanbe to emigrate. About 10,000 Tajik Jews have fled to Israel since 1989. In 1992, there was a little-known but successful airlift operation to bring Jews out of Tajikistan and into Israel. |
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