NEW DELHI — India has been in lockdown since March 24. It came without any warning: Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a 21-day complete shutdown one evening, giving the country four hour’s notice to plan. All services like transportation were suspended, except for critical services including grocery stores and health care providers. For India’s minuscule…
“India is not our country,” says Haniel Reuben, 72, one of the older members of a small clan claiming descent from the Manasseh, one of Israel’s historical “lost tribes” deported by Assyrian conquerors in 720 BC. A group of men prays in a synagogue in northeast India for the chance to “return home” to a…
As you know, the story of the Jews in Hollywood is well-known. But what about the Jews in Bollywood? Bollywood makes more movies than Hollywood does in a year. There are more than 1,000 movies made in Bollywood each year. There is also a very interesting Jewish Bollywood story that needs to be talked about….
Geula Tautang, 19, raced frantically around the Ben Gurion airport arrivals area on Monday afternoon, her gaze fixed on the automatic sliding doors. Geula hadn’t seen her mother in almost six years, and she was about to walk through those doors. The Tautang family is from the Bnei Menashe, a tribe of nearly 9,000 people…
Until now, Israel and the Jews have been looking for the 12 lost tribes of Israel for 3500 years. It’s now clear that one of them is the Brahmin Hindus of India. We are going to show you how Israel and Hinduism have a lot in common, so you can figure out what happened to…
NEW DELHI: Covid-19 put a stop to over a hundred Bnei Menashe Jews from Manipur traveling to Israel. 40 of them tested positive for Covid on Monday, just hours before leaving their Karol Bagh hotel for Indira Gandhi International Airport. They are currently residing in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee’s Guru Tegh Bahadur Covid…
February 11, 2020, 04:52 Hundreds of Bene Israel community members from Maharashtra descended on Jerusalem on Monday evening from all around Israel to celebrate the Hebrew Calendar’s designation of their ‘Malida’ celebration as an official national holiday. The Bene Israel community celebrated ‘Malida’ at 70 sites around the world, including India, the United States, and Israel,…
On January 28th, I was honored to present a panel discussion with 40 guests and over 80 listeners on the history and culture of India’s Jewish communities. The intellectual Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ethiopian, Bukhari, and yes, Indian Jews on social media who campaign for their community’s participation within prominent Jewish organizations motivated me to put the…
Danny Ben-documentary Moshe’s focuses on Indian Jewish actors as forerunners who paved the way for other women to break into the Hindi cinema business. She’s still referred to as the Dream Girl. However, when Hema Malini decided to pursue a career in the film industry at the age of 16, her father was not pleased….
Because of the ban on the entry of community members into synagogues and limitations on congregations in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Jewish community in India is gearing up for low-key Jewish New Year celebrations and associated festivals. The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, begins on Friday evening and ends on Sunday evening….