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burma
Meet the family behind Burma’s last synagogue
Jewish Journal
October 28, 2015
In the center of downtown Yangon (formerly Rangoon), just off the city’s main thoroughfare of Mahabandoola Street, stands Burma’s only remaining synagogue, Musmeah Yeshua.
Are Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims the world’s ‘least wanted’ people?
Jared Sichel
June 4, 2015
Abu Tahay, a Rohingya Muslim activist who lives in Myanmar, says his people face a simple calculus when deciding whether to remain in their western Myanmar homes or escape via the Andaman Sea on overcrowded, hopelessly equipped fishing boats: “Do — or die.”
Surviving a childhood in refugee camps, and thriving
Jewish Journal
May 13, 2015
It was late at night when my family and I climbed into a boat to cross the Salween River into Thailand.
Now is the time for Obama to visit Israel
Douglas Bloomfield
November 13, 2012
President Obama leaves Saturday for a three-day trip to Burma, Thailand and Cambodia. On the way home he should stop in another Asian country, Israel. It\’s a trip he should have made early in his first term and is long overdue.
In Burmese Chanukah celebration, signs of Myanmar’s openness to the West
Jewish Journal
January 3, 2012
In almost any other community from Moscow to Washington, it would have been just another public Chanukah menorah-lighting ceremony providing an opportunity for the local government and Jewish community to showcase their strong ties.
Organize now against oppression in Burma
Dan Adler
May 2, 2008
The U.S. Campaign for Burma puts together an internet and television campaign, with the hope that their messages will reach not only millions of Americans but also the rank-and-file soldiers in Burma, who may not even realize how closely the world is looking at the atrocities many of them are carrying out.
Honoring Hatzolah, Anjelica Huston, Sheba
Danielle Berrin
April 5, 2008
Honoring Hatzolah, Anjelica Huston, Sheba
A Piece of Familiarity
Julie Y. Benson
May 6, 2004
Myanmar, tucked in the middle of Thailand, Laos, China, India and Bangladesh, has had a rather turbulent history that continues today. Travel there would not appeal to those less inclined toward adventure, but my husband and I prefer such destinations. So, we boarded Myanmar Airways International in Bangkok and flew into Yangon International Airport, where we deplaned to find members of the national military waiting to \”greet\” us. Their job, among other things, was to make sure that we exchanged the obligatory $200 for their local currency before we could retrieve our luggage.
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