Nearly 5000 members of an old Indian Jewish community with unique rituals and culture live in and around Mumbai. Their narrative encompasses the British Raj, the independence movement, Zionism, and the formation of contemporary India in recent centuries. They describe being Jewish in a country free of antisemitism, proudly Indian. This film is part of…
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…
Muslim engraver Mohammad Abdul Yaseen serves the tiny Bene Israel or “Sons of Israel” community in Mumbai, whose origins in India go back about 2,000 years.
Chaï Chaï Films & Les Poissons Volants present “Next year in Bombay” (documentary – 55 min – 2010) Directed by Jonas Pariente and Mathias Magin FESTIVAL SELECTIONS Palm Springs International Film Festival, Mumbai FF, San Francisco Jewish FF, Cairo Documentary FF, Florence River-to-River Indian FF, Atlanta Jewish FF, New York Sephardic FF, Stuttgart Beyond Bollywood…
As CBN News reports, some Jews are now returning from the world’s two most populous nations China and India. .. The Christian Broadcasting Network CBN http://www.cbn.com
Up until India’s independence in 1947, there was once a large Jewish community in Kolkata. Known as “Baghdadi Jews,” they came from present-day Iraq and Syria in the late 18th Century.Today, this Jewish world is vanishing. Out of the city’s 15 million residents, only 20 are Jewish.
This documentary is both an intimate family portrait and a fascinating ethnographic study of the Bene Israel, one of three groups of Jews living in India today. Filmmakers Nathanson and Fernandez spent months living with one family in the Bene Israel community, documenting the family’s daily lives and recording the religious and cultural traditions of…
They say they are the descendants of an ancient tribe of Jews exiled from the land of Israel almost 3,000 years ago. In India’s remote Manipur state, this ‘lost’ tribe has lived for generations, adopting Judaism once again in the 1970s. Many members of the Bnei Menashe, as the community is known, now dream of…
http://www.TravelsWithSheila.com What a surprise to learn that Kerala’s main religion is Christianity and about its once Jewish presence. It is said Jews first arrived in 70 CE after the destruction of the Second Temple and received special protection from India’s rulers. All sights seen in this video are around a 1-1/2 hour drive from Cochin.
