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....
In Hellenistic and Medieval times, Indians and Jews met in person, communicated through trade, or “imagined” each other (discussed more fully in the next chapter).
In the nineteenth century, Hindu Indians first heard of Judaism as a world religion. 74...
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...
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...
Samuel Bak (born 12 August 1933) is a Polish-Jewish painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948. Since 1993, he has lived in the United States.
Biography
Shmuel Bak was born in Vilna - Wilno, Poland...
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...
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...
Esther David (born 17 March 1945) is a Indian Jewish author, an artist and a sculptor. She was born into a Bene Israel Jewish family in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. She won Sahitya Akademi Award in 2010 for The Book of...
The ability to move between different worlds was an asset to Jewish writers and film-makers. Joseph David Penkar was a prolific playwright, screenwriter, director, and lyricist. He wrote and directed in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, and Urdu while being fluent...
"Wow, the ladies here go to synagogue in saris!" "Does that have a Hindu flavor to it?"
This is a question Nathaniel Jhirad, a 23-year-old Indian Jew of Mumbai's Bene Israel group, is frequently asked. "You wear skirts; that is...