The Bene Israel (lit. 'Sons of Israel'), also referred to as the "Shanivar Teli" (lit. 'Saturday oil-presser') or "Native Jew" caste, are a community...

Bene Israel of Maharashtra and other parts of British India and the Bnei Menashe of Manipur and Mizoram. Since the formation of modern state Israel in...

India that were not under Portuguese control. The Main branch of Native Bene Israel Community is said to be arrived at Konkan Coast in ancient times they...

country's three distinct Jewish groups—the ancient Cochin Jews, and Bene Israel communities as well as the more recent Baghdadi Jews. The Jews in India...

Look up bene in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bene may refer to: Bene AG, a European office furniture product and services company Bene Israel ("Sons...

Israelite group. The Bene Israel claim a lineage to the kohanim, descendants of Aaron. According to Bene Israel tradition, the Bene Israel arrived in India...

heritage with the Indian Jews in Israel, the country's Pakistani Jews are mainly identified as having belonged to the Bene Israel, a community of the Jewish...

the beginning of the 20th century, mostly comprising Iranian Jews and Bene Israel (Indian Jews); a substantial Jewish community lived in Rawalpindi, and...

viz Cochin, Bene Israel (of Bombay and its environs), Calcutta, and New Delhi, communications between the Jews of Cochin and the Bene Israel community were...

of Israel" in West Bank Bani Israël, a village in Senegal Bene Israel, a community of Jews in India Banu Israil, Muslim community of India Ben-Israel B'nai...

practice modern Judaism. The Bene Ephraim claim descent from the Tribe of Ephraim, and say that they traveled from Israel through western Asia: Persia...

was initiated in 1560. The Bene Israel arrived in the state of Maharashtra 900 years ago. Another branch of the Bene Israel community, resided in Karachi...

Judeo-Marathi (Marathi: जुदाव मराठी) is a variety of Marathi spoken by the Bene Israel, a Jewish ethnic group in Maharashtra. There is no evidence that Judeo-Marathi...

Bnei Brak or Bene Beraq (Hebrew: בְּנֵי בְּרַק (audio)) is a city located on the central Mediterranean coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv...

well as many smaller Jewish communities, such as the Beta Israel, the Cochin Jews, the Bene Israel, and the Karaite Jews, among others. Likewise, over 25%...

be due to a connection between the Chitpavans and the Bene Israel communities. The Bene Israel, who also settled in Konkan, claim that the Chitpavans...

towards the Bene Israel and to Russian immigrants to Israel during the 1990s Post-Soviet aliyah. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the Beta Israel were required...

and modern Italians. Some studies show that the Bene Israel and Cochin Jews of India, and the Beta Israel of Ethiopia, while very closely resembling the...

authorities in Israel were accused by articles in the Indian press of racism in relation to Jews of Indian ancestry (called Bene Israel). In the case that...

B'nai Israel (Hebrew: בני ישראל "Sons/Children of Israel") may refer to: Bene Israel, a historic community of Jews in India Bnei Isro'il, a historic community...

on the Lemba and Bene-Israel. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-37474-3. Genetics, History, and Identity: The Case of the Bene Israel and the Lemba, Springer...

(Bene Israel – Sons of Israel) started emigrating to the newly created country of Israel in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The number of Bene Israel remaining...

not be proven. In 1964 the Israeli Rabbinate declared that the Bene Israel are "full Jews in every respect". The Bene Israel claim a lineage to the Kohanim...

The demographics of Israel, monitored by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, encompass various attributes that define the nation's populace. Since...

is the language of Bene Israel – Indian Jews from the Konkan region of the state of Maharashtra in India. They migrated to Israel beginning in 1948, when...

Alibag and its surrounding villages are the historic hinterlands of Bene Israel Jews. According to Indian Jewish historian Esther David, Jews arrived...

the Parsi (Zoroastrian) community and has a community of Jews known as Bene Israel. Hindus form 79.83% of the state's total population as per 2011 census...

reside in Israel. Included among these are the Paradesi Jews. Bene Israel are the Jews of Mumbai, India, most of whom now reside in Israel. Bukharan Jews...

The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millenium BCE...

Jews of Central Asia. Some Jews migrated to India, establishing the Bene Israel, the Baghdadi Jews and the Cochin Jews of India (Jews in India); and...