Jews of India

Thursday, April 22, 2021, 7-8 PM Abraham D. Sofaer and Marian Scheuer Sofaer, a power couple, discuss the Jews of India, diplomacy, and contemporary events in Israel, Iran, and the Middle East. During this program, local benefactors and business leaders Vin...

Jews of India

On January 28th, I was honored to present a panel discussion with 40 guests and over 80 listeners on the history and culture of India's Jewish communities. The intellectual Sephardi, Mizrahi, Ethiopian, Bukhari, and yes, Indian Jews on social...
May 17, 2021, Ambassador T.S. Tirumurti, India's permanent representative to the United Nations, declared India's formal response to the latest round of Israeli violence against Palestinians in East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank. While the "indiscriminate rocket firings from...
February 11, 2020, 04:52 Hundreds of Bene Israel community members from Maharashtra descended on Jerusalem on Monday evening from all around Israel to celebrate the Hebrew Calendar's designation of their 'Malida' celebration as an official national holiday. The Bene Israel community...
January 18, 2019, 6:30 pm Join HOH for a lovely, lay-led Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Museum of African American History. Lauren Pyes will speak about her travel to India with CJP and Project Inspire, as well as her interactions...

The Jews of India

Thu Apr 22 2021, 7–8 pm In this talk, power couple Abraham D. Sofaer and Marian Scheuer Sofaer will discuss the Jews of India, diplomacy, and contemporary developments in Israel, Iran, and the Middle East as a whole. During this...
Mon. Apr. 19, 2021 8:00-9:00 pm Baghdadi Jews in India were able to keep their communities alive by juggling various identities in a stratified and complicated culture. During the British Raj, the communities were immensely diverse, and they were able...
Thursday, May 6, 2021 Nissim Pingle, the director of Mumbai's Jewish community center, hasn't left his home since March, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. COVID-19 began to surpass India at that point. The second wave of diseases has wreaked havoc...
April 19 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM Prof. Shalva Weil, Senior Researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Seymour Fox School of Education 8 p.m. in Israel Join us as we journey through the history of a unique community that spans countries and centuries... Prof. Shalva...
On Monday, April 12, the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) and StandWithUs (SWU) hosted a virtual event called "Indo-Judaic Ties: Ancient Cultures, Common Challenges, Modern Miracles." Nearly 300 members of the Jewish and Hindu American communities from across the country...