Kerala Jewish Tour

19/08/2024

The Wallace Brothers traded in India for generations. Their business associate was a Sassoon with whom they formed a mercantile bank 'The Wallace Brothers Sassoon bank'. After the independence they cut down their operations in India but went big in real estate in Hongkong with the Sassoon family.
In Mattancherry we still have some old houses with Sassoon name on it.

12/08/2024

The rain and disaster was a few days ago, yet the sun that shone in the last couple of days was so hot that this evening rain got warm welcome.

11/08/2024

End of an Era.
When her community members left Kerala in the decades that followed our independence, she stayed back with a few others, choosing the honour of being buried at the place where her husband, parents and all her previous generations were buried than the blessing to be in Israel.
Today her wish was fulfilled. She died at the first light of August 11 morning.
You will always live in our hearts and we will tell your story to our children.
Yehuda Queenie Amma of Kochi.

23/04/2024

Happy Holidays।
Pessach। Passover।

Pessach। Passover।
Happy Holidays!

14/04/2024

Happy Vishu.

Wish you all a Happy Vishu.

29/03/2024

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Speed post a letter from the Land's End through the India Post. Choose one from our gallery. Let us send it for you.

29/08/2023

03/05/2023

A tomb stone with a Hebrew inscription at English Church Cemetery in Paalayam Kottai in Tirunelveli.

03/03/2023

A Fulbright scholar Prof. William Miles of North Eastern University of Massachusetts, USA was at Kochi as part of his recce on Kerala Jewish Heritage.

29/12/2022

Nithya Anand Kamath's vegetarian Restaurant is our favourite first food stop at Paravur in the Kerala Synagogue Tour which starts at 8am from Vypeen Ernakulam. After a Dosa and Mulaku Vada and a walk around the Paravur market it will be 10AM in time for Paravur Synagogue Museum to open and visit.

29/12/2022

The historic Chalakudy river near the Jew street in Paravur.
Tourists are yet to arrive for the heritage tourism by boat.

29/12/2022

A December Morning at Parur Synagogue in Kerala.

30/10/2022

A dry day in October at , the parapet was still warm to sit on and the Arabian Sea continued to be high just like anywhere else on the coast.
The prospect of a tour after a very long time was exciting.
So was the heartful local engagement. The pandemic disaster has made us miss out on a lot of beautiful emotions.
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12/12/2021

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On Saturday, 1,700 flags will be raised to commemorate 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany. Due to the pandemic, the festival year will be extended until summer 2022.

01/12/2021

On the fourth candle of the ongoing Hanukkah festival we remember the Jewish wise man Nehemiah Mootha of Mattancherry Kadavumbhagam Synagogue. His tomb at Chakkamadam is the only tomb that survived after the community left en masse for Israel in the first decade of our Indian Independence. At present the tomb holds a high place of respect among the multi religious neighbourhood in the true tolerant spiritual tradition of Kerala. As we remember him this year on his death anniversary we are happy his Synagogue has been taken over by the state government which is likely to ensure its restoration and maintenance.

15/04/2021

At the old town of Chendamangalam and Parur the centuries old system of Barter Market continue without interruption... Bamboo and coconut shell ladles and spoons to home-made bangles, earthenwares, dry fish, exotic orchids, and flowering plants, bamboo mats, and steel knives and locally popular mango varieties etc. are some of the products that are exchanged. We have two synagogues in this old town.

It was called off after three days of rain dampened spirits

14/04/2021

Some hold the view that Egyptians are nothing but Arabs.

The genetical compositions of modern Egyptians point in a different direction.
68% from North Africa where ancient Egyptians lived, only 17% of Arabs, 4% of distributed Jews and 3% from East Africa, Asia Minor and Southern Europe.

04/04/2021

A high-profile shooting in progess in our Jew town Mattancherry. It is a pity the organizers do not usually advise the superstars to pay a courtesy visit to the last of the Paradesi community members.

13/12/2020

זוכרים את נחמיה מוטה ממטאנצ'רי בנר הרביעי של חנוכה

20/11/2020

A celebration of ethnic diversity.
Happy Sigd, the festival of Torah pilgrimage, the only uniquely Ethiopian-Jewish holiday, now a national holiday in Israel.
Courtesy: Dr. Mel Konner

15/10/2020

This year, the pandemic took away all the celebration. The lights of Simhat Torah from a few years ago.

12/10/2020

The arrival of Kerala Jews.
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05/10/2020

A very interesting reading.

Evolution of the Jewish calendar 0 Flares 0 Flares × Rosh Hashanah greeting cards (above and below) from the author’s family’s collection. The cards are almost 100 years old. The translation of the one in which people are walking is “Into the synagogue.” It is signed by Chaim Goldberg, a we...

03/10/2020

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