Cabal in Kabul

Name: Cabal in Kabul
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2006-11-15
Cast: Yitzchak Levin, Zebulon Simentov

2006 1h 26m 8.5Movie

Documentary

This is the story of the last two Jews in Afghanistan. All the other Jews have left a long time ago. Isaac and Zabulon live alone in the abandoned synagogue. The older of the two, the ruddy-faced Isaac, is Kabul’s sorcerer-healer. He makes cabalistic amulets, which he sells to Muslims to drive out demons from women, or from soldiers exhausted by the war. The other Jew, Zabulon, has the same Afghan customers, but sells them the wine, which he produces illegally.