Jewish Traces in Unexpected Places: Jewish Life Holds On in Cochin on India's Malabar Coast

For 900 years there has been a small Jewish community in Cochin on India’s Malabar coast, living at peace with their Hindu, Muslim and Christian neighbors. It’s been a model of interfaith tolerance. 

But, as Fred de Sam Lazaro reports, the community has dwindled since the state of Israel was established and now one of the last Jewish survivors, who maintains the synagogue, says he plans to leave in a few years – for Israel. 

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