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Subject: Status of Indian Jews in Israel?
capitalist72    3/5/2004 9:28:35 PM
India has had one of the oldest Jewish populations in the world. There are some very old synagogues in Mumbai. Though Indian Jews are one of the few Jewish populations around the world that have remained free from persecution throughout history, their population has been quickly declining due to migration to Israel for economic reasons, and perhaps spiritual ones too. I'm curious as to how they have placed themselves in Israel. Are they a well integrated part of society? Wealthy or middle class? Is there a lot of intermarriage between them and other Jewish people, or not? Do they mostly live in any particular area of the country? What are their feelings towards their country of origin? Etc... Any information from Israelis on this board would be welcome.
 
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bsl    RE: yodha    4/16/2004 7:09:00 PM
"... they know that no one will target them. ..." Because the ones who would are too busy blowing up the Indian parliament?
 
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LogicRules    India and Judaism   4/16/2004 8:54:15 PM
You'll actually find that the Jewish population in India is pretty well spread out-its main centers are the ones mentioned already, true, but you can find clusters in most states and especially recently in Delhi and Hyderabad... I can't believe that after immigrating to Isreal they forgot Cricket...comon folks... Well, at least the new ones rememeber... The fact that they are infamous for their military record is odd-some of the Jewish families there are almost wholely military-and damn proud of it... How aretheir economic and scientific contributions? In India, the minorities, especially the Jews and the Parsis, have made the greatest contributions to India's Hi-tech industry...
 
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Shirrush    RE:India and Judaism   4/17/2004 8:41:23 PM
The Indian immigrants' bad reputation in the Israeli army has no factual basis whatsoever and has been largely forgotten since the sixties. Some of the Indian boys probably happened to be smaller and skinnier than the big Russian jlobs and the stocky Kurdish lads they were drafted with... In any case, I guess that most of the really military families stayed in India and had no reason to emigrate. I ever came across only one such family, the father had retired from the Indian Air Force prior to emigrating to a town right next to a large IAF base (couldn't live without the noise...), and the son was serving with me in our reserve tank unit. I do remember him as quite an eager, and able fighter. In Israel, any newcomer group has to be picked on, somehow. The very basis of Israeli humor is poking fun, in a very politically uncorrect manner, at the various tribes composing the population, and as such the Indians got away cheap and light, very unlike the Rumanians, the Poles, the Moroccans and the Persians! As to the Indian Jews' contributions in Israeli culture and society, there are a few celebs, a soccer star, a fashion leader, many successful businesspeople, in short, nothing out of the ordinary: in Israel, they're not a minority, just regular Jewish people with "kar" names and a rather interesting cuisine.
 
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