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31.) kochi, india

Over a week ago | Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 04:27:00 AM

inscribed in hebrew on the paradesi synagogue. fort kochi kochi was the first european settlement in colonial india. from 1503 to 1663, fort kochi, it was decided by portugal. this period was difficult for the portuguese jews in the ...

From vijay

32.) jewish world

Over a week ago | Sunday 02nd of September 2007 10:31:00 PM

meanwhile in cochin, india, the jews of this small locality are dying out. there are now only 13 elderly jews left, speaking a mixture of the local language of malayalam and some hebrew words mixed in. the pardesi synagogue built in ...

From Jack Cohen

33.) Think Green | Cross-Currents

Over a week ago | Wednesday 30th of July 2008 12:00:00 AM

The key to how alive we are as Torah Jews is the significance that we attach to the most commonly repeated acts ?? to every beracha and the most commonly performed mitzvah. As Rabbi Chaim Volozhin stresses, even the smallest actions ...

From Jonathan Rosenblum

34.) Krazy Kochi: Walking Through Jew Town, Cochin

Over a week ago | Tuesday 25th of December 2007 08:22:00 AM

At about that time the first antique shop called Indian Arts and Curios was opened by a non- Jewish resident M P Isadore near the magnificent Paradesi Synagogue that was built in 1568. Slowly the pepper and ginger trading in the ...

From Minu Ittyipe

35.) SAJAforum: PREZ RACE: Parallel to Obama in Kochi, Kerala

Over a week ago | Sunday 07th of September 2008 12:00:00 AM

Born into a poor family, Salem went on to become the first graduate from his disadvantaged Jewish subgroup dubbed meshuchrarim meaning freed slaves by the local ?white? Jews. Jews came to Kerala over the centuries in waves and the late ...

From Sree Sreenivasan

36.) Lynda Resnick: Last Month in Mumbai

Over a week ago | Sunday 30th of November 2008 12:00:00 AM

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 Lynda Resnick

37.) From Jewish healing to India's Jerusalem

Over a week ago | Monday 18th of June 2007 08:49:00 AM

I went back to the Pardesi synagogue in Jewtown, where there was only one woman and 4 men. Coincidentally, and really strangely, one of the men was a white guy from Beachwood, Ohio, who apparently runs some business from India and has ...

From Jocelyn M. Berger

38.) Artbeat and Acme Conclude « rego?s media page

Over a week ago | Friday 19th of December 2008 12:00:00 AM

Kochi: Amid tight security in the wake of the Chabad House attack in Mumbai, the Paradesi Synagogue in the old Jewish town in Mattancherry on Sunday witnessed a Jewish wedding after a gap of 21 years. The marriage of Solomon, son of . ...

From RR

39.) In which we find religion (our own): India Day 28 (Kochin) « Idea Czar

Over a week ago | Sunday 07th of December 2008 12:00:00 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. ...

From kengrobe

40.) Cochin, Kerala » Old World Wandering: A Travelogue > London to ...

Over a week ago | Monday 27th of August 2007 12:00:00 AM

Mattancherry has Kerala?s only functioning synagogue, situated in an area still known as Jew Town. Pardesi Synagogue was built in 1568 to serve the Cochin Jews, or Malabar Jews, who after several rounds of immigration made up a ...

From Iain Manley

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