"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...
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...
Modi will again speak to people of Indian descent when he visits Israel in July for a three-day trip. There could be up to 4,000 Jews from the country who moved to Israel. His last event like this was...
The Bene Israel people are derived from 14 Jewish survivors of a shipwreck on India's Konkan coast, according to their oral tradition.
New York, NY: According to a study, genetic testing has proven what the Bene Israel group in western...
The Bene Israel Jewish community from West India is a unique group of people whose history before the 18th century isn't very well known. Bene Israel members think they are descendants of Jews, but they don't know who these...
"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...
My recent study journey to India with the Jewish Federations of North America's National Young Leadership Cabinet provided an opportunity to learn about the courage and perseverance of a rare group of people who battled hard to keep their...