the makeshift rabbi of a Jewish population of 200 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan’s second city, and caretaker of its turquoise-domed, 19th-century synagogue, which is among Central Asia’s prettiest.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (JTA) — The history of Bukharian Jews of Uzbekistan is a bit murky. There is no documentation to prove it, but Bukharian Jews trace their history to the Jewish migration to the ...

Uzbekistan has aspirations to become a second ... "Muslims, Christians and Jews come here and say their prayers according their own religion," Firdovsi, a young guide explains.

DUBAI: Three suspects held in the United Arab Emirates over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi are from Uzbekistan ... officials and an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group he was affiliated with ...

Three suspects held in the United Arab Emirates over the murder of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi are from Uzbekistan ... officials and an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group he was affiliated with called ...