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...
"For over 2,000 years, Jews have lived in India and have never faced discrimination. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." (Yona Metzger, rabbi)
The film depicts Jewish life in Kochi, a seaside city in Kerala, India, today. The Kochi Jews are...
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...
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...
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,...
Rachel Jacobs, who is she? The question consumes Sadia Shepard from the minute she uncovers the name-inscribed pin in her grandmother Rahat's wardrobe. Years ago, Rachel changed her name to Rahat, lived as a Muslim in Pakistan, and buried...
More than half a century ago, the magnificent synagogues of Kolkata were packed with members of a vibrant Indian Jewish community. The congregations are no longer present—less than two dozen remain—but the mosques are still maintained by numerous generations...
This twelve-minute film looks at how young people's religious identities can be linked to their practice of the visual arts, and how this can change over time. When Sonia Narang made this film for Practical Matters, an Indian Jewish...
WASHINGTON, D.C., 10 MAY 2011 – The Asia Society Washington Center held a screening of the documentary Next Year in Bombay, which shed light on a little-known subcontinental subculture.
The film tells the tale of the Bene Israel Jewish community,...
A meeting of the Knesset Sub-Committee on Israel and the Jewish People discussing the relationship between India and the Jewish People.