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  • A Rohingya woman grieves after a fire gutted her family's shelter in Bawdupa camp near Sittwe, Myanmar's Rakhine state capital on May 3, 2016. A major fire on May 3 damaged or destroyed the homes of nearly 450 Rohingya Muslim families living in a camp for people displaced by 2012 communal fighting in western Myanmar. Some 140,000 people, mainly Rohingya, have been trapped in the grim displacement camps since they were driven from their homes by waves of violence between Buddhists and minority Muslims four years ago.
    A Rohingya woman grieves after a fire gutted her family's shelter in Bawdupa camp near Sittwe, Myanmar's Rakhine state capital on May 3, 2016. A major fire on May 3 damaged or destroyed the homes of nearly 450 Rohingya Muslim families living in a camp for people displaced by 2012 communal fighting in western Myanmar. Some 140,000 people, mainly Rohingya, have been trapped in the grim displacement camps since they were driven from their homes by waves of violence between Buddhists and minority Muslims four years ago.
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    Does Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi Want To Push Her Country’s Muslims Into the Sea?

    The plight of an oppressed people in Myanmar

    byJon Emont
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    Meet the 99-Year-Old Jewish Veteran of the War in Burma

    The story of British serviceman Mordaunt Cohen

    byJoe Freeman
  • The bima at Musmeah Yeshua during Moses Samuels's remembrance ceremony
    The bima at Musmeah Yeshua during Moses Samuels's remembrance ceremony
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    Mourners Remember Moses Samuels, Preserver of Myanmar’s Only Synagogue

    Sammy Samuels will continue his father’s legacy by making sure the gate of the synagogue remains ‘unlocked.’

    byJoe Freeman
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    Remembering Moses Samuels, the Man Who Preserved Jewry in Myanmar

    The third-generation caretaker of the country’s only synagogue and Jewish cemetery has died

    byJonathan Zalman
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    Dressing British and Speaking Yiddish in Burma

    Dispatch from an old hill station on the road to Mandalay, where prosperous Jews once summered

    byJoe Freeman
  • Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion accompanied by Burmese Former Chief Justice U Thein Mg, in Rangoon December 10, 1961.
    Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion accompanied by Burmese Former Chief Justice U Thein Mg, in Rangoon December 10, 1961.
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    In Israel’s Earliest Days, the Place Its Leaders Felt Compelled To Visit Was Burma

    A visit with Than Than Nu, whose father U Nu welcomed Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, and Moshe Sharett to Rangoon

    byJoe Freeman
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