Wednesday, November 4, 2020 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Finally, we’re going to look at some new research. New book: Shalva Weil talks about her new book, “The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities, and Creating Super-Diversity,” in this video. This book looks at how the Baghdadi Jewish community changed dramatically overtime…
Friday, December 13, 2019, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Join artist Siona Benjamin and the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center, in collaboration with the Jewish Arts Collaborative, for an intimate and vibrant evening exploring art, heritage, and history. Siona will discuss her childhood growing up in a Bene Israel Jewish household in cosmopolitan India, and…
January 18, 2019, 6:30 pm Join HOH for a lovely, lay-led Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Museum of African American History. Lauren Pyes will speak about her travel to India with CJP and Project Inspire, as well as her interactions with the Indian Jewish community. India’s Jewish community is small but powerful. Mumbai is a…
Friday, January 18, 2019, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm Join Havurah on The Hill for a fantastic, lay-led Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Museum of African American History. Lauren Pyes will speak about her travel to India with JCP and Project Inspire, as well as her interactions with the Indian Jewish community. India’s Jewish community…
World-renowned Indian-Jewish artist Siona Benjamin will be at the JCC of Middlesex County on April 29 at 2 pm. Benjamin is an Indian-Jewish artist who has worked all over the world. Benjamin, who was born in Mumbai, India, will show a 30-minute documentary called “Blue Like Me” about her art and work that blends Indian…
January 15, 2018, 6:00 PM The Festival will be a cultural celebration of all things Bene-Israeli, both past, and present. This month of January appears to be the festival season in Mumbai. Aside from the Mumbai Shopping Festival, the Bene Israeli Jews – a small but historic Jewish community deeply rooted in Indian culture –…
March 12, 2015 at 4:30pm From the late 19th century frontier west to the mid-20th century urban east, the Jewish Studies Program presents a discussion that chronicles American Jews’ encounters with both the concept of “the Indian” and Native American peoples. It contends that paying attention to the Jewish-Native interaction sheds new light on some…
Tuesday, March 4, 2014. 12:00 PM This study of Bene Israel (Marathi Jewish) devotional music from the 19th to the 21st centuries looks at how Bene Israel and other groups communicate with each other. It also suggests new ways to think about cultural translation in musical contexts. The first part of the presentation focuses on…