An entire community of Bukharian Jews plans to emigrate from the United States to Israel. Rabbi Michael Borochov, a leader of the New York community, which hails from Uzbekistan, was quoted as saying Tuesday that hundreds of his coreligionists were in talks with the Jewish Agency for Israel about moving en masse to Beit Shemesh.
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