But the exodus from Tajikistan, which once had at least 15,000 Jews, was particularly thorough, owing to a vicious civil war that broke out there in 1992 and raged for five years, resulting in ...

Matayev and Robieyeva told me they are two of just 300 Jews left in Tajikistan. Other estimates suggest the population is closer to 150 now. No matter, it’s a sharp fall from the estimated ...

The Jewish community in Tajikistan is small, but its ties to the region stretch back centuries. Its members are trying to convince the government to hold off on the synagogue's destruction, ...

But the exodus from Tajikistan, which once had at least 15,000 Jews, was particularly thorough, owing to a vicious civil war that broke out there in 1992 and raged for five years, resulting in ...

For many centuries, the city of Khujand in Tajikistan, a mountainous Muslim-majority country, had been a center of Jewish presence in Central Asia. But the once-rich communal life of Bukharan Jews ...

Tajikistan's once thriving Jewish population has dwindled to an estimated 50 people. Most left for Israel in the 1990s to escape the country's civil war. But one woman has returned to the city of ...

Despite efforts to save Tajikistan’s only synagogue from demolition, the 100-year-old shul in the Central Asian country’s capital most likely will be torn down by summer’s end.

Tajikistan's government has begun demolishing the Central Asian nation's only synagogue, offering in exchange a plot of land far from where most Jewish community members live. The work started ...

The plans are part of an urban-renewal project in the city's Ismoil Somoni district. As Mikhail Abdurakhmanov, the chief rabbi of Dushanbe, explained in an interview with RFE/RL's Tajik Service: "We ...