The Bene Israel narrative appears to be based on the ten lost tribes of Israel that escaped persecution by Greek monarch Antiochus Epiphanes in 175 BCE. They were stranded on the Navigation shoreline, which is today home to an...
Bene Israel (Hebrew: "Sons of Israel") is the largest and oldest of India's Jewish communities. They were integrated into Indian society, preserving many Jewish observances but acting under the caste system, according to legend. They were stranded on the...
The Bene Israel are arguably the world's only Jewish community that has never faced anti-Semitism. For two thousand years, they lived in peace with their Indian neighbors, free to practice Judaism and grow as a society. The Bene Israel...
India’s Bene Israel Jews
The oldest and largest of the three Jewish communities in India.
BY SHIRLEY BERRY ISENBERG
The Bene Israel have always been the largest of the three Jewish communities in India. (The other two are Cochin and Baghdadi.) In 1838,...