Jews in Cochin, India

Clip: 5/12/2016 | 7m 43s

A dwindling Jewish community says goodbye to its historic synagogue.

For 900 years there was a small Jewish community on India’s Malabar Coast, living at peace with its Hindu, Muslim and Christian neighbors. It was been a model of interfaith tolerance. But, as Fred de Sam Lazaro reports, the community has dwindled since the state of Israel was established, and now one of the last Jewish survivors, who maintains the local synagogue, says he plans to leave.

Aired 05/12/2016 | Rating NR

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