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Stone inscription in southern India reveals evidence of region’s oldest synagogue
(JTA) — An inscription on a stone pillar found in a small village in southern India may reveal new information about the oldest synagogue in the area and possibly shine a new light on the early ...
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Queenie Hallegua, second-to-last Jewish resident of historic Indian Jewish community, dies at 89
Hallegua and her late husband were the caretakers of Kochi’s 450-year-old synagogue. Four years ago, when a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent visited Kochi, India, researcher Shalva Weil ...
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Jewish Synagogue
the Pardesi synagogue located in Kochi, Kerala, in South India is one of seven synagogues of the Malabar Yehudan people or Cochin Jewish community in the Kingdom of Cochin. The literal meaning of ...
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Ohel David Synagogue and David Sassoon Tomb join Maharashtra’s Jewish Heritage Tourism Circuit
Notably, Dr. Zakir Hussain, then President of India, visited the synagogue in 1968 and placed a wreath on Sassoon’s tomb during the centenary celebrations of the hospital. The 160th-anniversary ...