Kochi: As the sun set over Kochi’s historic Jew Town neighborhood, Keith Hallegua donned a gray kippah and began a solitary walk to the synagogue at the end of his cobbled street. It was Shavuot, the Jewish holiday commemorating God giving the Torah to Moses. Hallegua reached the 458-year-old Paradesi Synagogue where he knew he would pray alone — without a minyan, the quorum of 10 males required for a communal service. Hallegua is the synagogue's last local congregant — the only Jew left in Jew Town. Across the city at the centuries-old Kadavumbagam Synagogue, Elias “Babu” Josephai remembered the...
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