Published: 17 January 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
MEMBERS OF THE CAMBODIAN royal family gathered last month at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh for a celebration. There was music, traditional Cambodian dance performances and plenty of food.
The occasion? The coming-of-age party of the granddaughter of one of the princesses. Well, a bat mitzvah to be exact.
The celebrant, Elior Koroghli, is the the great-granddaughter of the late King Sisowath Monivong, who reigned from 1927 to 1941. She is also an Orthodox Jew.
The 13-year-old grew up in Las Vegas, the daughter of Monivong’s granddaughter Sathsowi Thay Koroghli, who converted to Judaism as an adult, and Ray Koroghli, a Persian Jew. While in Cambodia for the bat mitzvah, the Koroghlis met with the current king and queen mother, and the extended family posed for a photograph, the tzitzit fringes worn by Elior’s brothers clearly visible in the frame.
FULL STORY Granddaughter of a Cambodian princess has a batmitzvah (JTA)
Photo: Elior Koroghli wears a traditional Cambodian costume at her bat mitzvah party in Phnom Penh. (Kang Predi and Teh Ranie)
