In Kolkata, in India (CNN) — The youngest person remaining is 65-year-old Ian Zachariah.
When did this happen? he says, nodding at the vacant synagogue where the yarmulke used to be.
While exploring the giant cathedral-like structure, his eyes rove around, inspecting the glittering stained glass, the blue-domed ceiling, and the rows of dark wood and wicker benches, which are still arranged in the same fashion as when on the Sabbath, the Feast of Lights, Maghen David is swarming.
To remember his youth, he goes back to a time when he sat in the back, in the left-hand corner, and gazed up toward the second-floor gallery where the females sat.
Within Maghen David’s walls, a hush has fallen. The 10 capable men required to form a minyan (a quorum for a Jewish service) have not been available here for a long time, due to a lack of that number of men.
Source: http://www.edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/india.jews/index.html
