Have a sweet new year with this apple honey baklava and Indian rice pudding
Sample some new High Holiday dessert traditions this year with an apple honey baklava and an Indian-inspired rice dessert made in a slow cooker.
Mumbai Synagogue Granted UNESCO Award
Historic Blue Synagogue Restored to Original Grandeur.
Recipes and Memories from Hanukkah in India
An Indian Jew shares her Hanukkah traditions
The 2,200-year history of India’s Bene Israel Jews began with seven ship-wrecked couples
A new book examines the community’s heritage and origins through a series of stunning photographs.
Living in many worlds
Indian, Jew, Yiddish-speaker, Tamil-speaker, linguist, professor – Meylekh Viswanath of Teaneck is, does, and thinks about it all.
Famous Indian Jews From Army to Bollywood, 8 prominent Jews who shaped modern India
There are around 6000 Jews in the country who are busy protecting the last remnants of Jewish heritage
How A Mumbai Cook Prepares For Rosh Hashanah
On the morning of Rosh Hashanah Eve 2016, I met Sharona Hayeems, a local Indian Jewish caterer, at her home in Dadar, a neighborhood in Mumbai where some of the remaining 4,500 Indian Jews in India still live. I was there to spend some time watching her cook for Rosh Hashanah. Read more: https://forward.com/food/382673/how-a-mumbai-cook-prepares-for-rosh-hashanah/
High Holy Days in Mumbai
Needel focuses on the Jews of Mumbai, explaining how they have created a “finely balanced and unique Indo-Judaic identity through a demonstrative cultural and religious inclusions of their Indian neighbors.”
