Researchers find ties that members of an Indian community likely originated from a group of Jews from the Middle East. Jerusalem — When tens of thousands of members of the Bene Israel Jewish community ...

The first volume of “The Origins and Early History of the Bene Israel, ” a major new work by Professor Samuel Shellim, was published here today with an introduction by M.S. Kannamwar, Chief Minister ...

Erusha Newman knows three things for a fact: she is Indian, she is Jewish, and she eats food unique to Indian Jews. Beyond that, the details get fuzzy. Newman is one of less than a dozen known Bene ...

Siona Benjamin gets that all the time. Born a member of Bombay’s Bene Israel community, she immigrated to the United States when she was 26. “The first time I tasted latkes and matzo ball soup was ...

Bene Israel is one of the distinct Jewish communities in India that lived in the coastal villages of Raigad. Shaul Sapir, professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, already an author of two books on ...

Bene Israel and Beth Israel cemeteries in Lindenwald may look like one big cemetery, but it's actually two. On the very southern edge of Lindenwald, in what would've been considered really far outside ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University, Cornell University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine reveals genetic proof of the Jewish roots of the Bene Israel community in the western part of India ...

When my book "Bene Appetit — Cuisine of Indian Jews," was published by HarperCollins, readers wanted to know why I decided to write it. My answer is very simple. There are 5,000 Jews in India, down ...

Reporting from MUMBAI, India — Mohammad Abdul Yaseen sat cross-legged beside a tree, hunched over a smooth marble slab. He moved a metal straightedge into position, making a gentle scraping sound, and ...