This Article First Appeared In The Hindu On March 18, 2023
Slumping in a chair inside a three-decade-old synagogue at Kothareddypalem of Guntur district, 60-year-old Yacobi Sadok looks hopefully towards the door.
“We will soon be called to Israel,” the man, who is the leader of the small Telugu-speaking Jewish community in Andhra Pradesh, says in a self-assuring tone. He is also the head of the Bene Yacob synagogue, one of the two Jew synagogues in the State.