So when you read about assaults against Indians today — online, offline, in the workplace, on the streets of Dublin, ...

In 1947, at the time of India’s Independence, it was estimated that about 25,000 Jews lived in India. Fewer than 5,000 remain today, the majority of them in Mumbai and its suburbs.

Once a vibrant community of approximately 3,000 at its peak in the 1950s, only a handful of elderly Jews remain here now in a city of some 677,000. According to Weil, there really is no community ...

The Jews of India, who number about 5,000 in a population approaching 1 billion, date their arrival to the year 72 A.D., when spice and ivory traders from Palestine landed at Cranganore, north of ...

The overwhelming majority of India’s Jews have migrated to Israel in the decades since the establishment of the Jewish state. Today, more than 70,000 Indian Jews live in Israel, while fewer than ...

The Paradesi Synagogue serves 24 local Jews in Kochi, India. Photo by Aaron Schrank A sign marks the entrance to historical Jew Town, within the wider Mattancherry district, in Kochi, India.

Over 1,000 members of India’s Bnei Menashe Jewish community have been displaced in the wake of violence in their region. Photo by Shavei Israel ...

Jews in the U.S. can make a big difference in their lives with small donations, he added. “With $9,000, you can feed 3,000 people for a few weeks,” Schwartz said. “This is not Whole Foods.

The main, organizing event here occurred in 1947, when India at once gained its independence from Britain and split into two countries -- Hindus remaining primarily in the main body of the ...

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 ...

Unlike India’s Cochin Jews, who emigrated due to the formation of the state of Israel, for Baghdadis it was India’s independence that proved to be a catalyst for emigration.