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Avi Kumar

Avi Kumar

Avi Kumar is a Sri Lanka native based in the United Arab Emirates who writes on global Jewish topics and the Holocaust and speaks 11 languages.

Asked how it feels to be a nonagenarian Israel Defense Forces reservist in action, Ezra Yakhin told JNS that “it is very important for us to fight for our country. I feel excellent.”
The new Jewish house of worship is part of an interfaith complex that includes a mosque and a church.
The South African Jew conducted important research that helped preserve the memory of foreign Machal fighters.
The late Mountain Jew cared for sites and co-religionists from the Mizrahi tradition.
One of the country’s oldest synagogues, Dublin Hebrew Congregation, is up for sale.
Fifteen years after the country declared independence, its Jews are optimistic about their future in one of the world’s newest states.
Survivors, whose ships were turned away from British Mandate Palestine, share their memories of a largely unknown, yet powerful and painful, story.
Esther Cohen escaped to Mandatory Palestine in September 1938, when she was 8 years old.
SAJA seeks to unite the continent’s emerging communities.