The New York Times has an interesting video on its site (sorry, no embed) about Zablon Simantov, apparently the last Jew in Afghanistan. Simantov tells about he haggled with a Taliban about the costs of conversion, and if you look closely when Simantov shows off the old holy books, you can see …. an ArtScroll haggaddah! See? I told you they had a lock on the market.
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