Articles written by Leah Falk

Leah Falk|Feb 6, 2015

(Jewniverse via JTA)-It might seem that the only Jews left in Pakistan are underground-in Karachi's lone Jewish cemetery. But that's not quite so. Faisal (Fishel) Benkhald, the son of a Muslim father and Iranian Jewish mother, dares to call himself a Jew in a country where the Jewish minority began dwindling in the 1940s with the British partition of India and today has all but vanished. Benkhald also leads a one-man campaign to save the Karachi cemetery from being sold to provide more burial...