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Jordyn Haime

JTA correspondent

An estimated 200 young Bnei Menashe men have joined the Israeli military's war effort. (Photo/Courtesy Degel Menashe)
Posted inWorld

Indian Bnei Menashe Jews miraculously survived Oct. 7. Now they’re fighting wars in Israel and India.

by Jordyn Haime December 7, 2023December 7, 2023

(JTA) — In the 2000s, as the small Israeli town of Sderot endured heavy rocket fire, thousands of residents left the city. Around the same time, a new population began moving […]

Rabbi Yaakov Baruch looks at posters with the names and images of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Baruch)
Posted inUncategorized, World

Despite unrest in Indonesia, a Jewish community finds peace among other faith groups

by Jordyn Haime November 29, 2023November 29, 2023
About 40 teens from across East Asia attended BBYO's first-ever conference in Singapore in November 2023. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy BBYO)
Posted inWorld

For Jewish teens in Asia, first BBYO convention in Singapore offers a rare sense of community

by Jordyn Haime November 20, 2023
(Screenshots/JTA)
Posted inWorld

Since Oct. 7, antisemitism has exploded online in China. Here’s why.

by Jordyn Haime November 10, 2023November 12, 2023
A member of the Bnei Menashe community in northeastern India works to construct a sukkah, the temporary structure used in celebrating Sukkot. (Photo/Courtesy Shavei Israel)
Posted inWorld

Displaced by ethnic violence, India’s Bnei Menashe Jews construct sukkahs

by Jordyn Haime October 2, 2023October 2, 2023
An illustration by Renia Metallinou from "Zhen Yu and the Snake" by Erica Lyons.
Posted inBooks

A Talmudic tale gets a 12th-century Chinese twist in children’s book aimed at diverse Jewish readers

by Jordyn Haime September 12, 2023September 19, 2023
Jeremy Freeman in the kitchen of Freeman Shokudo. (Photo/JTA-Jordyn Haime)
Posted inJewish Life

His pastrami sandwich is a new star of the Tokyo food scene

by Jordyn Haime August 23, 2023August 23, 2023
A bust of Chiune Sugihara is seen near the Sugihara Chiune Memorial Hall in Yaotsu, Japan, his purported hometown. (Photo/JTA-Jordyn Haime)
Posted inNews

Researchers say Japan has exaggerated the story of Chiune Sugihara, the ‘Japanese Schindler’

by Jordyn Haime July 19, 2023July 19, 2023
Over 1,000 members of India's Bnei Menashe Jewish community have been displaced in the wake of violence in their region. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Shavei Israel)
Posted inWorld

India’s Bnei Menashe community in crisis as ethnic violence burns synagogues and displaces hundreds

by Jordyn Haime June 16, 2023June 16, 2023
Indian army soldiers inspect the remains of a house that was set on fire by a mob in an area of a village in the Senapati district of India's Manipur state, which is home to thousands of Bnei Menashe Jews, May 8, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Arun Sankar-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Caught in the crossfire: India’s Bnei Menashe Jews reeling after 1 is killed and synagogue burned

by Jordyn Haime and JTA May 10, 2023

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