Former Soviet Georgia to celebrate Jewish life

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Throughout most of its history, Georgia's Jewish community has enjoyed relatively good relations with the Christian majority, and there have never been any pogroms or large-scale anti-Semitism in this country.

But Georgia's once-thriving Jewish community, which at its peak totaled 100,000, has now dwindled to 15,000.