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Video: India celebrates Hanukkah
While India celebrates Hanukkah, we take a look in Delhi where a small group of the Jewish community meets in the rabbi’s house to remember the loved ones lost in the Bombay (Mumbai) terror attacks. Tension is high but the rabbi and his wife are determined to not let it dent their spirit. Their emotions…
Video: Jewish Diversity
One G.od – One Torah – One People
Video: Indian Diversity The Bene Israeli
A very important non-Jewish community that had an impact on the Bene Israel was the Christian missionaries. In the eighteenth century many Christian missionaries came to India. Some of them had anthropological interest in India. They began with their own theories about the origins of Bene Israel and other researchers including the Bene Israel themselves…
Video: Bene Israel Traditional Selichoth of Indian Jews
Video: Modern Jewish Mom: Rosh Hashana Seder
www.tjctv.com An ancient Sephardic tradition spices up Rosh Hashana dinner. Rahel Musleah, author of “Apples and Pomegranates,” hails from the Bagdadi community in Calcutta, India, and shares her family’s take on the Rosh Hashana seder. MODERN JEWISH MOM is hosted by Meredith Jacobs. Watch more MJM at www.tjctv.com/tjc-original-programming/moder-jewish-mom
Recipe: Malida – Sweetened Poha Breakfast Cereal
Ingredients 4 cups Poha 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes 10 cardamom pods, shelled and ground Handful golden raisins (optional) For those with tree nut allergies: Defrosted edemame, peeled and sliced (optional) For those who don’t have tree nut allergies: Handful raw almonds, blanched, peeled and sliced (optional) Handful raw pistachios, shelled, blanched,…
Article: BAGHDADI JEWISH WOMEN IN INDIA
Joyce Shankaran with friends and family in Bombay (L to R): Ruth Varsulkar, Joyce’s niece; Esther Talkar, Joyce’s friend; Elizabeth Abraham, Joyce’s mother; Joyce; Anu, Joyce’s daughter. The “Baghdadis,” referring to Jews coming mainly from Baghdad, Basra and Aleppo, but also from other Arabic speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire, arrived in India in the…
Facts: Bene Israel Indian Jews
ETHNONYMS: Beni Israel, Shanwar Teli Orientation Identification. The Bene Israel Indian Jews lived in Bombayand in villages on the Konkan Coast, south of Bombay, in Maharashtra State. Today less than 5,000 Bene Israel live inIndia, and more than 30,000 live in Israel. The Bene Israel claim that they originated in Israel and were shipwrecked off the Indian coast in the…
Facts: Cochin Jews
ETHNONYMS: Cochin Jews, Cochinis (Israel), Malabar Jews, Paradesi Jews, Black Jews Orientation Identification and Location. The Cochin Jews constitute one of the smallest Jewish communities in the world. They originate from the Malabar Coast in India and traditionally were divided into two caste-like subgroups: “White” (Paradesi) and “Black” (Malabari, although this entire group of Jews is from Malabar)…