Kochi comes alive during monsoon with lush greenery misty views and reflective streets perfect for photography. Explore ...

Floods literally broke down religious barriers in parts of Kerala with two groups of Muslim youths cleaning up two temples in Wayanad and Palakkad districts on Monday Many of them were fasting as the ...

In 1909, Jewish philanthropists Henry Moskowitz and Lillian Wald joined W. E. B. Du Bois and Mary White Ovington in founding the NAACP; prominent Jewish publisher Joel Spingarn became its longtime ...

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Day 1: Arrival In Kochi – Where History Meets The Sea Photo Credit: Canva Things To Do: Wander around Fort Kochi’s narrow lanes filled with Dutch and Portuguese-era buildings, quirky cafés, and art ...

Today’s guest columnist is T.K. Thorne. Our story begins in Birmingham, where a small group of Black and White people, the Council on Human Relations, had been meeting since the 1950s despite ...

These two groups were called "White Jews" by the Portuguese, while their freed slaves were called "Black Jews" due to being the descendants of freed African slaves and Jews.

White Against Black. Through the centuries, Cochin’s Jews have adopted many Indian religious traditions. Mortar for the walls of their synagogue was mixed with coconut water, which Hindus use ...

Abraham Barak Salem, the first Kochi Jew to become an attorney, throws light on the history of Jews in Mattancherry in his book titled ‘Cochin Jew Town Synagogue’. “The community had sought refuge in ...

When a JTA correspondent visited Kochi, India in 2020, a researcher said only two Jews were still living in Jew Town, a once-vibrant community where perhaps 3,000 Jews lived at its peak in the 1950s.

The Jew Town in Mattancherry was built on land gifted by Maharaja Kesava Rama Varma (1565–1615). So was the synagogue of the Paradesi (White) Jews at the northern end of the Jew Town. The Malabari ...

KOCHI: When 89-year-old Queenie Hallegua passed away on August 11, it was a reminder to the people of Kerala of the vanishing of the Paradesi Jewish community.