It’s thought that the first Jews in India lived on the Malabar coast around the middle of the 9th century BCE. That’s about 2,800 years ago. After King Solomon died in 931 BC, Israel split into two kingdoms: Israel and Judah. They were ruled by rival kings for more than 200 years until the Assyrians…
In Meera Mehadevan’s Shulamith, a recent Sakti novel, the dominant Hindu culture is shown to have an effect on Indian Jewish women. Shulamith, the main character in the book, has a “sense of dual fidelity” between her love for her husband and her way of life. When her husband goes to Israel, she stays in…
A new book, Jews and the Indian National Art Project, talks about how Jews helped make Indian art. A piece from Siona Benjamin’s Rang de Nila is shown. She is a member of the Bene Israel community. She uses symbols from modern India, Islamic, Persian, Rajput, and Mughal art in her work. What: A new…
(JTA) – The Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTA) has Members of India’s Jewish community, who claim to be descended from one of Israel’s lost tribes, have begun Passover preparations. On Thursday, the Bnei Menashe community gathered in Churachandpur, India’s northeastern district, to bake matzah. The baking took place in a Shavei Israel facility, which aims…
In this story, we’ll learn about the rise and fall of Jews in the world’s biggest movie business. Bollywood makes a thousand movies a year, three times more than Hollywood does, in twenty different languages that are seen by three billion people around the world. This is three times more than Hollywood does. Few people…
The geography of Kerala, which is a small strip of land between the Western Ghats to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west, not only kept the region politically and culturally separate from the rest of the world but also made it ideal for growing spices, which were in high demand in the…
Some people thought it was bad for Hindu and Muslim actresses to appear on film in the early days of the now-thriving Bollywood. This led them to hire big men with Indian moustaches to act like women and dance around as if they were women, too. Since these female Jewish Indian dancers were allowed on…
Jaishankar praised the work of Indian Jews in the nation-building process of India, identifying them as “one of us,” citing old cultural and religious ties between India and Israel. S Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister, met with the Indian Jewish community in Israel on Sunday, praising its enormous effect on the country. In many ways,…
The Bene Israel people are derived from 14 Jewish survivors of a shipwreck on India’s Konkan coast, according to their oral tradition. New York, NY: According to a study, genetic testing has proven what the Bene Israel group in western India has traditionally claimed – that they had Jewish ancestry. “Almost nothing is known about…
