 [KhaamaPress] An 83-year old Toba Moradi and her six relatives who were members of the only Jewish family in Afghanistan left the country the previous week and are now temporarily living in Albania.
Toba Moradi who was born and raised in the Afghan capital Kabul wants to go to Canada and start a new life with four of her children already settled there.
They were all rescued by IsraAid humanitarian organization that receives assistance from the Israeli President.
Toba Moradi’s siblings have been living in Israel and her parents have also been buried there but she was not in contact with her sibling since they left Afghanistan in the 1960s 1980s.
The Jewish Afghan woman said that she misses Afghanistan and added that she decided to leave her homeland in order to rescue her children’s lives.
"I left Afghanistan, I loved my country Afghanistan, loved it very much. I had to leave because my children were in danger. I am happy that I am going to see my children. My children are in different places, one in one place the other one in the other place; I was not able to see them. I was crying." She told AP.
Toba Moradi is a distant cousin of Zabulon Somantov who left Afghanistan last month.
Somantov would named himself as the only Jewish in Afghanistan and the sole survivor of a centuries-old community.
Simentov’s distant cousin, Tova Moradi, was born and raised in Kabul and lived there until last week, more than a month after Simentov departed in September. Fearing for their safety, Moradi, her children and nearly two dozen grandchildren fled the country in recent weeks in an escape orchestrated by an Israeli aid group, activists and prominent Jewish philanthropists.
“I loved my country, loved it very much, but had to leave because my children were in danger,” Moradi told The Associated Press from her modest quarters in the Albanian town of Golem, whose beachside resorts have been converted to makeshift homes for some 2,000 Afghan refugees.
Moradi, 83, was one of 10 children born to a Jewish family in Kabul. At age 16, she ran away from home and married a Muslim man.
| As I understand it, by Muslim law this makes her children and grandchildren Muslim, following the faith of their father. And if the children are practicing Muslims, they are not Jewish, but of Jewish ancestry, by Jewish law. They’d have to undergo formal conversion to be Jews, same as anyone else. Whether there is a legitimate concern that the Taliban would bully them for it is a different question... |
She never converted to Islam, maintained some Jewish traditions, and it was no secret in her neighborhood that she was Jewish.
Now, Moradi and six of her relatives are in Albania, and another 25 relatives made it to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates earlier this week. 
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