Most of the permanent Jewish community in Thailand, consisting of probably fewer than 1,000 individuals, resides in Bangkok[1] (especially in the Khaosan Road area), although smaller Jewish communities with synagogues exist in Phuket, Chiang Mai, and Ko Samui. During Jewish holidays, these communities numbers sharply increase (to several thousand) as a result of vacationing Jews, primarily from Israel and the United States. At the request of two of Bangkoks synagogues, Beth Elisheva and Even Chen, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, took up residence as the first permanent rabbi in Bangkok, in 1993. He has been in Thailand since 1993 (when the Jewish Association of Thailand was founded), and is a member of Chabad. He was joined in 1995 by Rabbi Nechemya Wilhelm, also of Chabad. Chabad of Bangkok is a large Chabad House in Bangkok, Thailand[2] that caters primarily to young Israeli tourists.[3
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:31:01 +0000
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