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She was 96. She would have turned 97 on September 4. Her last rites will be performed on Sunday at 2pm at the Paradesi Synagogue. Sarah's husband Jacob Cohen died 20 years ago, in 1999. After his ...

home to Ernakulam Shiva Temple and the 16th-century Paradesi Synagogue, the oldest in India. The journey takes in the traditional boatyards of Kavalam, the crescent beaches of the Malabar Coast ...

While the Paradesi Synagogue here is world-famous, there is a lesser-known ‘place of worship’ nearby. A stroll from Jew Town takes one to the densely populated neighbourhood of Chakkamadam.

They are known as Paradesi Jews, or foreign Jews, as they were believed to have migrated from Portugal. They lived in row houses and prayed at the Paradesi Synagogue that was built 422 years ago, in ...

Jewish members of the Kingsbrook Shul Congregation held a Menorah lighting outside the shuttered Chaim Albert Synagogue in Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Full Story Jewish members of the Kingsbrook ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A man reads messages left on the fence outside the fire damaged Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, Monday ...

Queenie Hallegua was the warden and managing trustee of the Paradesi Synagogue, a 450-year-old landmark, from 2012 to 2018. Queenie and her late husband Sammy hosted Queen Elizabeth and her ...

Queenie Hallegua was the warden and managing trustee of the Paradesi Synagogue in Kochi, India. (Photo courtesy Ellen Goldberg) The death of Queenie Hallegua, the last of the Paradesi, or “foreign,” ...