For 900 years there was a small Jewish community on India\u2019s Malabar Coast, living at peace with its Hindu, Muslim and Christian neighbors. It was been a model of interfaith tolerance.\u00a0 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 local synagogue, says he plans to leave in a few years himself\u2014for Israel. \u201cThe coming generation must know that there was a Jewish community here,\u201d says Professor C. Karmachandran, who heads a historic committee struggling to preserve Cochin\u2019s Jewish heritage.<\/p>\n
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