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...
Friday, January 18, 2019, 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Join Havurah on The Hill for a fantastic, lay-led Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Museum of African American History. Lauren Pyes will speak about her travel to India with JCP and...
World-renowned Indian-Jewish artist Siona Benjamin will be at the JCC of Middlesex County on April 29 at 2 pm. Benjamin is an Indian-Jewish artist who has worked all over the world.
Benjamin, who was born in Mumbai, India, will show...
January 15, 2018, 6:00 PM
The Festival will be a cultural celebration of all things Bene-Israeli, both past, and present.
This month of January appears to be the festival season in Mumbai. Aside from the Mumbai Shopping Festival, the Bene Israeli...
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...
11/26/2016 - 12:00pm
This discourse is a scholarly response to the physical and ideological outbursts of violence that accompanied the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. This study, which is concerned with issues of representation, uses the Mumbai killings as a starting...
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...
JUN 07, 2015 01:18 PM
India's Jewish population is shrinking. However, with Prime Minister Modi's imminent visit to Israel, hopes are high that the attention would shift back to India's Jews.
Ezekiel Isaac Malekar removes his white religious shawl and a...
March 12, 2015 at 4:30pm
From the late 19th century frontier west to the mid-20th century urban east, the Jewish Studies Program presents a discussion that chronicles American Jews' encounters with both the concept of "the Indian" and Native American...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014. 12:00 PM
This study of Bene Israel (Marathi Jewish) devotional music from the 19th to the 21st centuries looks at how Bene Israel and other groups communicate with each other. It also suggests new ways to...