The Monmouth County Clerk's Office at Market Yard, 33 Mechanic Street, Freehold, has asked the Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County to host an exhibit. From Malabar to Monmouth County: A Global Connection to the Jews of India is...
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...
Thursday, Oct. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Cochin Jews are descended from an old Jewish population that originally dwelt in the Kingdom of Cochin, a South Indian monarchy (the present-day port city of Kochi). Cochin Jews were once a...
This paper examines how the specificities of place, particularities of the subject, and the Indian experiences and encounters of Bombay-based Britons could generate representations that undermine the totalizing agentive and generative power attributed to colonial discourse through an examination...
MAY 12, 2021 AT 12:26 PM
(JTA) Since March, Nissim Pingle, the director of Mumbai's Jewish community center, hasn't left his home.
COVID-19 began to surpass India at that point. The second wave of diseases has wreaked havoc on the country's health system,...
Jul 07, 2021 · 11:30 am
When it comes to Jewishness – and the right to return to Israel – constructed identities are especially important.
Esther David (whose actual surname was Dandekar) describes attempting to “make aliyah” via the Law of...
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...
May 5th, 12 noon
Claudius Buchanan, a Scottish theologian, and Church Missionary Society missionary wrote in a letter from Cochin in February 1807,
I've been in Cochin or the surrounding area for over two months and have been familiar with the...
June 4, 20212:42 AM
NEW DELHI, India, 2 June (Reuters) - More than 100 Jews from India's northeastern state of Manipur have had to postpone their plans to relocate to Israel after family members contracted COVID-19 and were quarantined in...
Celebrating the Traditions of an Indian Hanukkah
December 13, 2017, Siona Benjamin is constantly reminded of this. She emigrated to the United States at the age of 26 as a member of Bombay's...