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Singapore-based entrepreneur, exploring Jewish life in Asia

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May 12, 2026, 7:07 AM

The New Jewish Diaspora Is Not Where You Think

From Limassol to Koh Phangan, Jews are building lives in places our grandparents would not have put on a map. Increasingly, that is the rational choice. The wandering Jew has a new itinerary. For most of the past century, the mental...

Apr 6, 2026, 6:16 PM

Oil, War, and Aliyah: Does the Hormuz Crisis Change the Calculus?

It has been a tense Passover. Millions in Israel holding seders in bomb shelters, the rest of us keeping a lower profile than usual elsewhere. Jews across Europe and North America have been sitting at seder tables in countries where...

Mar 16, 2026, 6:30 AM

More than 12,000 Jews Will Sit Down to the Seder in Thailand This Year

Three weeks ago, Rabbi Yosef Kantor sent me a letter. He is the Chief Rabbi of Thailand and has been running Chabad of Thailand for over three decades. He is also the Rabbi that guided me to lay tefilin for...

Feb 3, 2026, 12:36 AM

The Safest Countries Have Moved from West to East

Israel has just ended a horrendous 2 year nightmare. Rockets have struck Tel Aviv. Military reservists cycled through active duty. Even now the country continues to live under genuine existential threat. And yet, according to the 2026 Numbeo Safety Index,...

Jan 26, 2026, 8:35 AM

After Davos: Should Israeli Investors Look East?

As the rules-based order fractures, Southeast Asia offers Israeli investors growth, stability, and genuine welcome (mostly!). At Davos last week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a quasi-eulogy for the world order that has underpinned international investment for decades. "The...

Jan 16, 2026, 5:53 PM

I Left Europe for Thriving Jewish Life in Asia

In 2009, I left the UK for Singapore. I returned in to the UK in 2016, thinking perhaps I'd settle back into European life. By 2023, I knew I couldn't stand to stay. Aside from general safety concerns and...

Jul 15, 2016, 11:00 AM

Why I am not outraged by the terrorist attack in Nice

My fiancée recently posed a question to me: 'Why are people totally outraged by the terrorist attacks in Paris, London or Orlando but seem almost apathetic to the regular massacres in Istanbul, Jerusalem or basically anywhere in the Middle East these...

Jan 12, 2015, 2:38 PM

Does the Arab League really condemn violence or is it all just taqqiya?

These days it seems like not a day goes by without some gross violation on human rights, a mass slaughter, rape or enforcement on gender or religious inequality. Sadly all too often these take place in the name of...

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About Me

Alexander Linton is a entrepreneur based in Singapore. Originally from the UK, he has spent over a decade in Asia building businesses including City Nomads and now RUMAVI. A chartered accountant and NUS EMBA candidate, he has lived across seven countries, speaks multiple languages and writes about Jewish life in the diaspora, entrepreneurship, and perspectives on Israel from Southeast Asia.