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Indian Jews

Faith Kramer’s Apples in Honeyed Syrup with Coconut Milk Rice Pudding (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inRecipe

Try my take on a classic Indian Jewish Rosh Hashanah dessert

Faith Kramer by Faith Kramer September 15, 2025September 17, 2025

Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, here is an apple and honey dessert with a distinctive flavor. […]

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
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
Herzel Simon celebrates Hanukkah at his home in Mumbai, India, Dec. 29, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Simon)
Posted inNews

Amid pandemic misery, India’s Jews try to stay safe while offering relief to those hardest hit

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 10, 2021May 10, 2021
A sign denotes Kochi's "Jew street," as it is known locally, which once was a hub of Indian Jewish life. (Photo/JTA-Christabel Lobo)
Posted inWorld

India’s Jew Town only has a handful of Jews left, but signs remain

by Christabel Lobo and JTA December 16, 2020December 18, 2020
Lishai Peel in the Alappuzha District in southern India. (Photo/Courtesy Peel)
Posted inOpinion

My mother downplayed her Indian Jewish heritage to fit in. As an adult, I’m learning to reclaim it.

Lishai Peel by Lishai Peel and JTA September 2, 2020September 2, 2020
a line of people in front of a shabby a white building with a green sign that says "Beit Shalom synagogue"
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Oakland man raising funds to feed impoverished Jews in India

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 30, 2020July 2, 2020
Detail from the cover of "Bombay Brides," a short story collection by Esther David
Posted inOff the Shelf

New short story collections are dispatches from outposts of Jewish life

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 22, 2019July 25, 2019
"Lilith's Lair" by Siona Benjamin
Posted inCulture

Indian Jewish artist turns ‘blue’ at Peninsula JCC

by Rob Gloster August 8, 2017August 8, 2017

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