Jewish Community:
Chabad of Cambodia
House # 32, Street 228
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Ph: 855-85-807-205
Rabbi Benzion Butman This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Jewish community in Phnom Penh numbers about 250 in 2018.
Jewish Cemetery:
Located in in Kandal province.
Residents prefer burial in Israel or in their hometowns, but some Jews living locally expressed interest in being buried there. Source: The Cambodia Daily, 2014. https://www.cambodiadaily.com/
The Jerusalem Post reported: "Behind a Buddhist pagoda about 45 minutes outside of Cambodia’s capital, a gray tombstone sits alone in what might be mistaken for a green rice field during the rainy season. There is no name or date carved into the stone. Skinny cows walk by in groups, and vendors sell drinks. This is the country’s first Jewish cemetery, which, as Bentzion Butman, the representative of the Chabad Hassidic movement and de facto rabbi of Cambodia, wrote in one of his recent weekly emails to the local community, 'Let’s hope we never need to use again, that is' .“ Source: Jerusalem Post. 2015. https://m.jpost.com/Jerusalem-
Letter from Cambodia: Rabbi Bentzion Butman's quest to leave no Jew behind. Source: Moment Magazine. 2014 https://www.momentmag.com/
[October 2018]