Many of the remaining Jews in Cochin, India, are heading for Israel in order to beat the chronic shortage of marriage partners. During the past 50 years, the community has shrunk from 2,400 to 60, with just 18 Jews left in Cochin’s historic Jew Town, site of the city’s only functioning synagogue.
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