Mendel Kaplan: There are groups of People living in the World who seem to have Jewish ancestry. It’s true; it’s true. The largest group of such People lives in a little known country called Afghanistan and they are known as the Pathans. The Pathans are very strange People because they do not fit into any box. They don’t fit into any typical Society. First of all, they’re self-reliant. They’re fierce warriors, but they do a Lot of things differently. For example, the Pathans circumcize their sons at 8 days old. Nobody does that but the Jews. The Pathans have cities of refuge or what we call orei miklat which the Torah talks about. The Pathans observe that till this very day. The Pathans wear some very strange garments ~ four-cornered garments with lines on them ~ which means they comes from the 2nd Temple period; many of them have fringes. They look a Lot like our Tallitot. And there are other weird things. The Pathans light candles on Friday Night. The Afghani Royal family claims Jewish ancestry. I think, the Pathans probably have some Jewish ancestry. I think, the Pathans do descend from Jews at some point.