Sadia Shepard's new book, The Girl from Foreign, opens with the thwack of slapping chapattis (Indian flatbread), the swish of her sari, and anecdotes of life in Bombay from her Indian grandmother.
But hold on a second. Rachel Jacobs was...
Kolkata: A new documentary about the city's dwindling Jewish population is on its way to show it through the eyes of the city's youngest resident.
This documentary will be directed by directors Jaydip Mukherjee and Aloke Banerjee and will follow...
The Mumbai International Film Festival will broadcast Subha Das Mollick's film "Dwelling in Travelling."
Are you in need of another reminder of how hospitable India has been to immigrants, and how this openness may reshape a city and a culture?
Dwelling...
A single falsehood may not harm a civilization, but a continuous stream of thousands does, and history has taught us how destructive this can be.
In terms of modern history, Israel and India have a lot in common. They were...
The story of the Cochini Jews has been told and replayed so many times that it has been reduced to anecdotal, tourist-friendly clichés. Documentary: Rohan
Sabharwal's film on the Cochini Jews looks at the group from the perspective of individuals...
Oren Rosenfeld, a Jewish filmmaker, and producer, is accompanying Moshe Holtzberg, 11, on his three-day trip to Mumbai, where he is filming a documentary about the city's Jewish community. Moshe, his nanny Sandra Samuel, and the 26/11 terror assault,...
Danny Ben-Moshe, a documentary filmmaker, focuses on India's Jewish community and their contributions to Indian cinema. Shalom Bollywood: The Untold Story of Indian Cinema is his most recent project. The documentary is light and airy, with music, dance, and...
A. I've been interested in the Jewish communities in India for over a decade. There are several, each with its history and experience, spread across India from Mumbai and Surat to Kolkata, Manipur, Cochin, and Andhra Pradesh. While I...
With apologies to Charles Dickens, I'd like to tell you about A Tale of Two Cities: West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Ramla, Israel, whose Rotary clubs just signed an "Agreement for Partnership." They have now been designated as sister clubs.
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The Cochinis, the Bene Israel, and the Baghdadis are the three primary Jewish communities in India, each with its origins and peculiarities. They have not been persecuted, but their numbers are dwindling owing to emigration to Israel and other...