We uploaded a video of Indian dancers performing Hava Nagila in a Bollywood-style staging in an Indian film in April 2010. It was Israel's time to reciprocate in April and May.
A Bollywood Dance workshop was held on April 29...
Shir Hodu: Jewish Song from Bombay of the ‘30s
Over the last few decades, there has been an increasing interest in the music of India's Jewish community. Indeed, the formation of a close-knit...
This article examines the Babylonian Jews' religious music repertory (liturgical and paraliturgical) in the port city of Bombay (now Mumbai) in western India, based mostly on information gathered from informants in the mid-1980s in Bombay and the United Kingdom....
Because I didn't know who I was, I didn't know I had the right to claim all of myself.
It was a tradition for me to start the week with curry at my grandmother's house, then go to synagogue for...
All India Radio has started its broadcast day with the same music every morning since 1936. The tune is distinctly Indian, with its droning strings and melancholy violin. But it was written by Walter Kaufmann, a Jewish emigrant from...
Even before clients smell the wonderful aroma of spices drifting from the kitchen, a sign welcoming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes them at a curry eatery in downtown Israel.
Modi's three-day visit to Israel, which begins on Tuesday and...
For India's Bene Israel "kirtankars," COVID-19 competes with Haman as the villain of the Jewish holiday of Purim this year. For the holiday, the kirtankars, a group of elderly ladies from Mumbai's Jewish community who sing kirtan, or traditional...
It had been a long time since anyone could understand the songs performed by the Nirit Singers of Israel, as the music was in an ancient language not spoken today. But people who witnessed their performance found themselves clapping...
From India to Israel, Making Beautiful Music
Zubin Mehta is on the phone with an old buddy for the first few minutes of our encounter (who, it turns out, is a grandson of...
At the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, Cantor Aviva Marer is the cantor. She grew up in Canada with a strong feeling of cultural Indian Judaism, having been born into a family of Bene Israel Jews from India. She enjoys educating...