Cochin Jews are India’s oldest Jewish community, with millennia of history in Kerala.
Jews have lived in Kerala, on India’s southwestern Malabar coast, for at least a thousand years, and maybe much more. Though the majority have subsequently relocated to Israel, a small number have remained, living in peace and harmony with the region’s numerous other religious communities. Their narrative is a remarkable illustration of the kind of diversity and openness witnessed by participants in the Malabar Rampage rickshaw challenge, and it is characteristic of India’s traditional tolerance.