SINGAPORE – Few know that the Maghain Aboth Synagogue in Waterloo Street, meaning “Shield of Our Fathers”, is Asia’s second-largest and South-east Asia’s oldest synagogue. Built in 1878, the initially one-storey building has over the years been made bigger and become the unofficial centre of Jewish activity here. On Thursday (Dec 2), it hosted a ceremony that launched the country’s first Jewish museum – the Jews of Singapore Museum, which traces the 200-year history of the Jews here. Located on the first floor of the synagogue’s neighbour, the Jacob Ballas Centre, it covers the community’s arrival in Singapore soon after...