“We are the last generation that can do it. Children that have grown up in Israel do not know India. People who grew up in India are 70 years old. They are dying out. There is no way you can do that in the next generation,” says Moses, a sprightly 73rd himself. His mission: to…
NEW DELHI: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks at a group event during his three-day visit to Israel in July, he will again address citizens of Indian descent abroad. It is estimated that as many as 4,000 Jews from the Israel-settled country will attend. His last such occurrence was in Kenya almost a year ago….
With only a few thousand Jews left in India, it’s hard to believe that the country still has about 60 synagogues that are either still standing or have been in the past. Many are closed, but there are still a lot of places to go. Most of the time, people who go on vacation will…
Modi will again speak to people of Indian descent when he visits Israel in July for a three-day trip. There could be up to 4,000 Jews from the country who moved to Israel. His last event like this was almost a year ago in Kenya. Vijay Chauthaiwale, the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s foreign…
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…
In the past, India has been a safe place for people of all religions to live. Across the world, Jews found safety in India. Synagogues they have built all over the country show that they have a history together. Bombay has a lot of hidden gems, but one of them stands out above the rest….
When the State of Israel was established in 1948, waves of Jews from India’s three major centuries-old Jewish communities began to migrate to Israel, eventually resulting in a population of over 80,000 Jews of Indian heritage living in Israel today. Nonetheless, scholars from both Israel and the Indian diaspora have paid limited attention to the…