Take some of the blood, and hit it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses where they'll eat it. In Exodus 12:7, God tells Moses that he has to do something This is...
Shobha ("Fori") Nehru was an aristocratic Indian lady who married BK Nehru, a former Indian ambassador to the United States and the nephew of India's first prime leader Jawaharlal Nehru. She was born and raised a Hungarian Jew, despite...
The twin pulls of India and Israel were the focus of a session including Jewish Indian writing. During the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) 2018 at Diggi Palace, Esther David (left), author of Shalom (an Indian Jewish Fiction), speaks with A...
The Society for Social Regeneration & Equity (SSRE), a group that wants to break down stereotypes about religious minorities, honored Sheela Rohekar, the only Jewish novelist writing in Hindi, on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. She was given an award...
Bombay Brides (HarperCollins) is a new book by Jewish author and artist Esther David, who is 73. It's about 18 stories of love and loss set in a flat in Ahmedabad, India, that is rented out to people from...
It wasn't until Nandita Godbole began researching her family's history that she realized how little she knew about her past. “We used to visit my father's parents a couple of times a year when I was a kid in India......
Tertullian, who attempted to draw a false distinction between Greek philosophy and Jewish faith. However, Hazony's objections are not limited to the Father of the Latin Church. The author also criticizes German research universities and their teachers for jointly...
Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, but it's her most recent work, an astonishing graphic memoir called Good Talk, that we're resharing with you this week in this "rewind" episode...
Hindu nationalists in India and the Israeli right share a surprising kinship. “Prime Minister Modi, we have been waiting for you for a long time, over 70 years,” Binyamin Netanyahu said in welcoming Narendra Modi to Israel while 2017....
During the turbulent 1940s, Baghdadi Jews, as well as many European Jews fleeing Nazi oppression, fled to the 'City of Joy' and found refuge there. They settled down and finally excelled in all of their endeavors, contributing significantly to...