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 ...

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The two major Jewish communities in the region were the Paradesi Jews, who were made up of refugees from Spain and Portugal following the expulsion edict in 1492, and the Cochin or Malabar Jews ...

Police have charged a 62-year-old Ottawa man with sexual assault of a girl at an Ottawa synagogue in 2022. Investigators said the alleged victim was under the age of 14. Aklilu Afowerk was charged ...

Benjamin Klein can no longer enter his synagogue through the front door. He has to go down a back alley, unlock a door, and then unzip a plastic contamination shield. More than three months ago ...

A fake plan to attack on a Sydney synagogue using a caravan of explosives was fabricated by an organized crime network in order to divert police resources, Australian police said on Monday.

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 ...

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 ...