I'm just dropping by to share one of my all-time favorite recipes, which comes from India's Baghdadi Jews. Are there Jews in India? Yes! In truth, Jewish communities have been in India since 76 CE, shortly after the Second...
According to some legends, Jews first came to India as King Solomon's merchants in search of materials for his first temple in Jerusalem. After the collapse of the Second Temple, South Indian Christian tales confirm that Jews settled in...
Siona Benjamin tells me as she stands in her sunlit kitchen in Montclair, N.J., with the ingredients for coconut chicken curry — cans of coconut milk, fresh ginger, and around, silver tray lined with small bowls of ground spices...
It begins on the 25th day of Kislev in the Hebrew calendar, which can fall anywhere between late November and late December in the Gregorian calendar. It will begin on November 28 this year. For eight days, the celebration...
After completing their army service, young adults in Israel take "the big excursion to the East," whether it's to "discover themselves" in ashrams, sleep on the beach in Goa, or smoke pot all day away from their parents' prying...
Erusha Newman is certain of three things: she is Indian, she is Jewish, and she eats food only Indian Jews eat. Beyond that, the specifics get hazy.
Newman is one of only a few dozen known Bene Israel residents in...
Food is exactly what characterizes the little-known Jewish Indian community—'Parsis' as they are generally referred to in India—with a history dating back approximately 2100 years.
Jews "have resided in India perhaps for millennia and at least the Middle Ages," writes...
Why are Jews and Israel important? India is adored by the public. Kalnirnay, Western India's ubiquitous calendar/almanac, is a delightfully ecumenical document that hangs in my kitchen. It has a list of all religious holidays, including several that I...
(JTA via The Nosher) — There is no alternative for consuming a dish in its original location, especially in a home kitchen by hands with thousands of dinners under their belts. For me, coming across a recipe, trying it...
On Dec. 7 at General Muir, Parsi chef Meherwan Irani (owner of Chai Pani), Jewish chefs Todd Ginsberg (General Muir) and Eli Kirshtein (formerly The Luminary), and Indian chef Archna Becker (Bhojanic) came together for Challah Walla, an evening...