A small Jewish community existed on India’s Malabar Coast for 900 years, coexisting peacefully with its Hindu, Muslim, and Christian neighbors. It served as an example of interfaith tolerance. However, as Fred de Sam Lazaro describes, the population has shrunk since Israel’s founding, and one of the last Jewish survivors, who runs the local synagogue, says he plans to leave in a few years—for Israel. Professor C. Karmachandran, who heads a historic group working to preserve Cochin’s Jewish past, says, “The coming generation must know that there was a Jewish community here.”
Source: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2016/05/13/jews-cochin-india/30450/
