February 4, 2021, India is well-known for its religious diversity. Despite this, due to India's vast population of nearly a billion people, the country's small Jewish minority is frequently overlooked or ignored. Regardless, Jews have lived in India for...
Members of the Jewish-Indian Bene Israel group are keen to share their Malida ceremonies and traditions with other Israelis, and they'll be doing so this year via Zoom.
This week, Indian-origin Israelis have been busy preparing for the annual Malida...
Sunday January 24 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Rahel Musleah was born in Calcutta, India, to a seventh-generation Jewish family with roots in Baghdad in the seventeenth century. She can give us a particular Jewish legacy of India through the colorful prism...
Are there any Jews in India? No, I'm not referring to the Native Americans who were thought to be remnants of the Ten Lost Tribes by 19th-century clergy. I'm referring to Jews in India.
After all, why not? After all,...
25/11/2020 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
This talk was initially given in the summer of 2016, and I know that some of you were there. It was a hot August Friday night in the Peill Room, and Stu and I had cooked...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Finally, we're going to look at some new research. New book: Shalva Weil talks about her new book, "The Baghdadi Jews in India: Maintaining Communities, Negotiating Identities, and Creating Super-Diversity,"...
September 10, 2020, 5:02 AM
A video showing the Indian Consul-General in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty, suggesting to a gathering of Kashmiri Hindus that India should adopt the Israeli model and create settlements in the Kashmir Valley to secure the...
Friday, December 13, 2019, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Join artist Siona Benjamin and the Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center, in collaboration with the Jewish Arts Collaborative, for an intimate and vibrant evening exploring art, heritage, and history.
Siona will discuss...
17 October 2019 at 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Scholars have long been interested in Jewish-Muslim connections, but despite the long and crucial presence of both Muslim and Jewish communities on the subcontinent, they have received little attention in South...
January 29, 2019, 15:53
As the United Nations honored International Holocaust Remembrance Day, poignant stories of Jews seeking safety in India during the horrors of the Holocaust were told.
On January 27, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day honors the horror of...