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How Venezuela’s remaining Jews are hanging on amid the crisis

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Published: 7 May 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

The crisis has furthered the depletion of Venezuela’s Jewish community from a height of 25,000 in the 1990s to about 6,000 - and it's shrinking

How Venezuela’s remaining Jews are hanging on amid the crisis (JTA)

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Photo: Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez welcomes Rabbi Isaac Cohen during a meeting with members of the Jewish community in Caracas in 2010. Credit: Reuters

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