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Israeli group opens ‘secular house’ on Koh Phangan

People listen to an address by a rabbi at the Chabad House, a community centre for Jewish visitors and residents, on Koh Phangan. (Photo: Chabad House Koh Phangan Facebook)

A group of secular Israelis has opened a community centre on Koh Phangan, saying it wants to offer Israeli visitors to the tourist island an alternative to the “indoctrination” found at Chabad houses.

The Secular House is the brainchild of the Free Secular Movement, an activist organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of religion and state in Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported.

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