As the sun set over Kochi’s historic Jew Town neighborhood, Keith Hallegua donned a gray kippah and began a solitary walk to ...

Jewish history is often told through exile, expulsions, and persecution. Yet in India, the story unfolded differently. For more than two millennia, Jewish communities have lived in India without ...

(RNS) — When coconut farmers in India’s Tamil Nadu state stumbled across a stone covered in strange inscriptions, it’s unlikely they expected it to be a groundbreaking find in Indian Jewish history.

In this week’s podcast episode of Lost Cultures: Living Legacies, we explore the rich history of Kolkata's Baghdadi Jewish community. Host Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure's associate editorial ...

Indian officials are urging the tens of thousands of Indian Jews living in Israel to visit their home country. To encourage Jewish and Israeli tourism in India, the Indian government has funded the ...

In the poem “Not One Fish,” Indian Jewish author Zilka Joseph shares the story of how her community, the Bene Israel, connected with the wider Jewish world. Legend has it that in the second millennium ...

KOCHI, India -- Down a narrow, stone-paved road in a quarter known here as "Jew Town," a woman with salt-and-pepper hair was sewing glittery beads onto the rim of a Jewish prayer cap. It was just ...

It was the most-asked question whenever we mentioned our Study Mission for the National Young Leadership Cabinet (NYLC) of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA). It’s the question I kept ...

MUMBAI, June 17 (Reuters) - Protests by India's small Jewish community have prompted a leading actor to pull out of a film on the last days of Adolf Hitler, a rare subject for a movie in the Bollywood ...

When coconut farmers in India’s Tamil Nadu state stumbled across a stone covered in strange inscriptions, it’s unlikely they expected it to be a groundbreaking find in Indian Jewish history. However, ...