“Jews in the Cradle of India” was presented at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on March 13, 2009. The panel included the journalist Rahel Musleah who is featured in this program excerpt.
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More Jews from India, Bnei Menashe, arrive in Israel in 2012
A group of Jews who are thought to be from the exiled “lost tribes”, the Bnai Menashe, arrived in Israel in December 2012. Short… video story about their arrival. For more information, see http://www.shavei.org/category/commun
Israel and India
Poly Sci 331 Final Project
Mumbai, India Jewish Heritage
Indian Diversity The Bene Israeli
A very important non-Jewish community that had an impact on the Bene Israel was the Christian missionaries. In the eighteenth century many Christian missionaries came to India. Some of them had anthropological interest in India. They began with their own theories about the origins of Bene Israel and other researchers including the Bene Israel themselves…
An ancient Jewish song with Indian melody
Bene Israel Traditional Selichoth of Indian Jews
The Jews of Jew Town, Mattencherry, Kerala, India
Synagogueinte Naatil (In The Land Of Synagogue) – 2011 is film based on historical facts. This film is in Malayalam with English sub-titles. The translation is wanting. I wish to thank Mr.Thaha Ibrahin for granting permission to upload this video. Thaha is a very special person who has lived and worked among the Jews of…
7 Wonders of India: Jewish Synagogue
Located in Kochi, Kerala, the Jewish Synagogue is floored with beautifully painted Chinese tiles. No two tiles resemble each other. Built in 1568 by the prosperous Jewish trading community, its interiors are decorated with Belgian chandeliers and grand lighting. Has rolls of Old Testament, old copper plates that have souvenirs and records of the privileges…
Jewish orphan finds new life with Indian savior
Tel Aviv, Israel (CNN) — In a scene his parents would have been heartened to see, family and friends recently thronged around young Moshe Holtzberg as men in black suits and black hats took turns cutting locks of hair from the boy’s head on a stage in a rented party tent outside Tel Aviv, Israel….