For a long time, Cochin Jewish women have sung Jewish songs in both Hebrew and the Malayalam language, which is the language of Kerala, their old home on the Indian coast. The Jewish women in Kerala sang in Hebrew...
Apart from the time-honored rituals of children and adventurous adults screaming and stomping their feet to scare away the evil Haman during readings from the ‘Megillah,' the congregation will witness a slice of Marathi Jewish history at sundown this...
This week on the Right Brain Music Podcast, we meet the Om Shalom Trio, a group of musicians who blend Indian, Jewish, and classical music traditions so well that you won't even know they were ever apart. This is...
Malayalam Zionist songs, which incorporate melodies and rhetoric from Indian cinema and political music from the twentieth century, are a noteworthy example of Jewish integration and contribution to Kerala's diverse culture. Kerala Jews composed songs in Malayalam right up...
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...