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...
Dwitiya Raghavan prepares entire meals based on an intriguing novel about the Bene Israeli community of Danda, Maharashtra, and forges an intimate bond with people she has never met.
Books and cuisine both have the power to take me to...
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,...
Following 1948, not only the Jews who made India their home, but also those who went to Israel with India in their hearts, have had an impact on India-Israel ties.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu arrived in India,...
The Genetics of Bene Israel from India Reveals Both Substantial Jewish and Indian Ancestry
The West Indian Bene Israel Jewish group is a unique people whose history before the 18th century is mostly...
"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...
"This work shows how genetic analysis may be a helpful and powerful tool for furthering our understanding of human history," researcher Yedael Waldman remarked.
TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) — TEL AVIV, Israel (UPI) — Bene Israel is a historically Jewish...
In the late 1940s, India's Jewish population numbered around 26,000 people. The entire community was split into four groups: Cochin Jews, Bene Israel Jews, Baghdadi Jews, and European Jewish refugees. All of them had the benefits of Indian citizenship...
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 history is documented not just in my DNA, but in the stories, we have told about the community.
I am in fourth grade and we are working on a geography project in class. This assignment gives us...