With only one Paradesi Jew remaining there and a handful in other former Cochin Jewish locations, synagogue services now rely on visiting Jewish tourists, and the once-vibrant Purim revelry has ...

A new study on the unique Purim traditions of the Cochin Jewish community by Prof. Shalva Weil, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain, from Hebrew University, published in the ...

The rights and privileges were inscribed on Copper Plates. The Copper Plates are kept today in the Paradesi Synagogue in Jewtown, Cochin (Kerala), India. Western Jewish eyes are quick to ...

Ruiz had prayed at the Williamsburg synagogue since the 1980s. It’s where she completed her Jewish conversion, and where her husband served as the board president for years. But a few weeks ...

The Jewish community in Tyumen, Siberia, dedicated a new synagogue in a ceremony attended by Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar. Tyumen is a large industrial city and home to a growing Jewish ...

He was arrested after he allegedly made online threats to shoot up the prominent Manhattan synagogue, Central Synagogue. His posts were found by the Community Security Initiative, who reported the ...

Syrian-American Rabbi Youssef Hamra leads the first Jewish group prayer in Syria since the 1990s, in the Ifrange Synagogue in the Jewish quarter of Damascus's Old City. — LOUAI BESHARA Syria's tiny ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. Montreal police have opened an investigation after an antisemitic symbol was spray-painted on a synagogue over the weekend. Rabbi Lisa Grushcow said in a video ...

(CBC) A Montreal rabbi is speaking out after she found antisemitic vandalism at a synagogue in Westmount. In a video posted to Facebook on Sunday, Rabbi Lisa Grushcow said she found a ...

A man accused of posting an online threat to shoot up a Manhattan synagogue was arrested driving into New York City on Friday, police said. The suspect was taken into custody on the New Jersey ...