India's children of Israel find their roots

Timesof India ^ | 7.21.02 | RASHMEE Z AHMED

[swarthyguy]

ZionistHinduConspiracy's Ancient Hinjew roots ping.

I remember hearing stories of how some Indian Jews had a hard time in Israel as this story mentions. Also, saw an Israeli magazine from the 80's with Indian Jews in traditional Indian dress on the cover; it wasn't these.
Please ping any others you think might be interested.

[Dialup Llama]

There are many people in Iraq and Iran who would be very surprised to find out about their Jewish ancestry. There are quite a number of them from the days of the exile.

[swarthyguy]

I can see that project going over real well with the authorities in those two countries.

[dennisw]

ping

[LarryLied]

Maybe someday everyone can be DNA tested and move to where someone in their line lived thousands of years ago. I'm hoping for the central California coast.

[LarryLied]

Getting a little out of hand isn't it?

Catch this one tonight?

An article published in the May'02 issue of The Atlantic Monthly contends that persons of European extraction are descended from Mohammed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/719729/posts

A set-up? We're told for months all Muslims must die and then we're told all those descended from white European Christians are Muslims.

[Truthsayer20]

German law does allow ethnic Germans to freely immigrate to Germany. For example, tens of thousands of people with German ancestry came from the former Soviet Union to Germany in the 90s.

[genefromjersey]

Oh dear ! Gracious ! There goes the neighborhood !

[RnMomof7]

Great article. I read this and thought of the religious conflict in India..(Muslims-Hindis) I hope this group stays well. If the Muslims get wind of this they will slaughter them

[happygrl]

Hey, thanks for the ping !

Where's that picture of the Hinjew cow ????

Now if we can only determine the true ethnicity of Michael Jackson....

[happygrl]

ping

[DainBramage]

probable descendants of a small group of hereditary Israelite priests or Cohanim,

How many more tribes are left to find?

[Alouette]

I remember hearing stories of how some Indian Jews had a hard time in Israel as this story mentions.

When we lived in Israel we had a Sephardic friend who was originally from Bombay. There was, and probably still is, a large community of normative Jews in India who for centuries did not accept the "bene Israel" as being authentically Jewish because they practiced some weird religion that combined bits and pieces of Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and whatnot.

I also had an Indian Hindu co-worker tell me that she thought she was Jewish.

[Ciexyz]

Most interesting.

[swarthyguy]

If the Muslims get wind of this they will slaughter them

What do you think they've been trying to do to Hindus for the past 1300 years?

[swarthyguy]

So your're descended from the ancient Hindu seafarers who washed up on the West Coast of the Americas so many millenia ago?

[swarthyguy]

"I also had an Indian Hindu co-worker tell me that she thought she was Jewish."

Whoa! An IndianAmericanPrincess/JAP combo! Hope she married someone really rich.

"because they practiced some weird religion...and whatnot"

Weirdness, like faith, is in the eyes of the beholder, eh?
I guess that whatnot was the last straw. The islam was the SUfi version, i bet; the sufi singing groups are renowned all over India and is performed by Catholics even.

[lavrenti]

I visited the synagogue in Cochin, in Kerala. Amazing place. Took some photographs of the tombstones recovered from the now-destroyed 12th century cemetery.

The roots of the community there stretch, by legend, to the Captivity.