BWAHAHAHAHA!
Posted on 12/05/2008 5:08:17 PM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
Early reports that two heavily armed Islamist extremists had broken into a mottled apartment block in south Mumbai almost escaped notice.
Within hours, however, it had dawned on India’s Jews, a community that traces its roots to the court of King Solomon, that for the first time in their history they had been targeted because of their religion.
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“We are a tolerant society, we’ve never had any antiSemitism in India. We can’t fathom the reasons for this attack,” Elijah Jacob, a local Jewish leader, said. “We can no longer remain complacent.” Numbering only about 5,000 in a city of 18 million people, Mumbai’s Jews are but a speck in the city’s cosmopolitan whirl.
But scattered around the city, are relics that bear witness to how the Jews helped to create Mumbai, built on land claimed from the Arabian Sea. For more than a century, the most important has been the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue. A grand colonial building in the heart of the Mumbai financial district, its flaking turquoise façade stands testimony to how a handful of Jews helped to shape modern India.
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The community’s true origins are tangled in a web of apocryphal accounts. Some believe that the first came as emissaries from the court of King Solomon, to live peacefully with India’s Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and – later, from the days of the Mughal Empire – Muslims.
Today most of Mumbai’s Jews trace their roots back to the Bene Israel community, said to be descended from seven Jewish families shipwrecked while fleeing persecution in Galilee 2,200 years ago. This group adopted Indian customs and went on to become a force in Bollywood.
Even after the terrible events of last week Mumbai’s Jews insist that their relationship with India – and with its Muslims – has not changed.
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Mulims - nothing to fear here. (s)
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In his Quest For The Lost Tribes, director Simcha Jacobovici has some footage of some of these Jews in India. One man stated that his ancestors had emigrated from Baghdad. The Indian emperor Ashoka erected pillars on the frontiers of his realm, and at least two of them (in Afghanistan, and perhaps it's three of them) are in Aramaic. One of those pillars is shown in Simcha's documentary.India's Jews, a community that traces its roots to the court of King Solomon... had been targeted because of their religion... Numbering only about 5,000 in a city of 18 million people, Mumbai's Jews are but a speck in the city's cosmopolitan whirl. But scattered around the city, are relics that bear witness to how the Jews helped to create Mumbai, built on land claimed from the Arabian Sea. For more than a century, the most important has been the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue. A grand colonial building in the heart of the Mumbai financial district, its flaking turquoise facade stands testimony to how a handful of Jews helped to shape modern India... The community's true origins are tangled in a web of apocryphal accounts. Some believe that the first came as emissaries from the court of King Solomon, to live peacefully with India's Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and -- later, from the days of the Mughal Empire -- Muslims. Today most of Mumbai's Jews trace their roots back to the Bene Israel community, said to be descended from seven Jewish families shipwrecked while fleeing persecution in Galilee 2,200 years ago. This group adopted Indian customs and went on to become a force in Bollywood. Even after the terrible events of last week Mumbai's Jews insist that their relationship with India -- and with its Muslims -- has not changed.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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Say what? Are these Jews living in Fantasy land?
Descended from seven Jewish families shipwrecked while fleeing persecution in Galilee 2,200 years ago. This group adopted Indian customs and went on to become a force in Bollywood.
Oh, OK, previous questions answered. The Jews run Bollywood too! LOL
> India’s Jews, a community that traces its roots to the court of King Solomon
I wonder if they’re Freemasons, too...
One day somebody is going to blow up the Moon Rock in Mecca in reprisal for muslim terrorist attacks. It is a matter of time.
:’) Doubtful.
The sooner the better.
The sooner we start fighting back the sooner we will end this thing.
“...We can’t fathom the reasons for this attack,”....
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Good grief! Where’s this guy been?
They’re mohammedans — that’s all the reason you need.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
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