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1.) Accidental Blogger: A "Pardesi" Life in "Desi" Land

Over a week ago | Monday 17th of November 2008 12:00:00 AM

In Hindi / Urdu, pardesi means foreign or foreigner - as opposed to desi which stands for native Indian or south Asian. Ever since I read Nathan Katz's detailed and interesting account of Indian Jews, I have wanted, whenever the...

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2.) Jews of Cochin

Over a week ago | Thursday 02nd of October 2008 09:34:00 AM

The second group was the Pardesi Jews or the White Jews who were foreigners from Spain, Holland, Poland, Ezypt etc . settled there. The third category Meshuhararim consisted of erstwhile slaves converted to Judaism on emancipation. ...

From Paliakara

3.) Lynda Resnick: Last Month in Mumbai

Over one day ago, 4 hours, 35 minutes ago | Monday 01st of December 2008 07:29:00 PM

It hasn't and won't stop with the Jews or Zionists or Americans or Spaniards or Brits or Indians. All they know is blind hate. The situation in the world right now brings to mind a famous quote by the Rev. Martin Niemöller: ...

From webmaster@huffingtonpost.com

4.) Ziomania: India's Jews

Over one day ago, -6 hours, -34 minutes ago | Tuesday 02nd of December 2008 01:50:00 PM

On a shabby lane in Kochi you can find a complex of four 439-year-old buildings--the Paradesi Synagogue. There you have Exhibit A for India's tradition of secularism and day-to-day tolerance of religious diversity: the fact that this ...

From Sophie

5.) In which we find religionour own India Day 28Kochin « Idea Czar

9 hours, 6 minutes ago | Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 09:22:00 AM

At the end of the service the old man had the caretaker guy open up the arc and we got to see and touch the four Torahs each with a breast plate that was one of the first things that the Jews brought to Cochin centuries ago ...

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6.) Jews + persecution : History and Geography Lessons: Alanis Morset ...

Over a week ago | Monday 22nd of September 2008 02:38:00 PM

Some say that these ?Black Jews? settled in the Malabar coast during the times of King Solomon of Israel, and after the Kingdom of Israel split into two. The Pardesi Jews, also called the ?White Jews? settled later, coming to India from ...

From olgalednichenko

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Over a week ago | Sunday 24th of August 2008 12:00:00 AM

On this visit to Kerala, she learns that there are two groups of Jews living there: the White, or Paradesi, Jews, and the darker-skinned Black, or Malabari, Jews. She also learns that the resentment between them runs deep. ...

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8.) A Trip into Ernakulam

Over a week ago | Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:55:00 AM

Our one stop was in Jew Town, which is home to the Pardesi (White Jew) Synagogue ? a remnant of a once thriving Jewish community. In addition to visiting the Synagogue, we spent a little time wandering amongst the shops, avoiding the ...

From Sudie Niesen

9.) Tales of a Wandering Jew: The Twilight of Cochin's Jews

Over a week ago | Tuesday 13th of February 2007 04:40:00 AM

The Hindu Raja of Cochin offered the Craganore Jews protection and asylum in an area of town now famously known as ?Jew Town.? In 1568, the Jews of Cochin constructed the Paradesi Synagogue, which is still in use today. ...

From Paul Rockower

10.) 'Lashkar-e-Taiba is behind Mumbai terror' | International ...

Over one day ago, -36 hours, -44 minutes ago | Friday 28th of November 2008 12:00:00 AM

The militant group's political wing has described Hindus and Jews as the main enemies of Islam and India and Israel as the main enemies of Pakistan, according to B. Raman, a former Indian government official, who authored a 2001 article ...

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