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  • Manisha Patel holds a flower garbo, an integral element of Navaratri, the nine-night autumn festival honoring the power of the divine feminine, at the Hindu Society of North Carolina in Morrisville
    Manisha Patel holds a flower garbo, an integral element of Navaratri, the nine-night autumn festival honoring the power of the divine feminine, at the Hindu Society of North Carolina in Morrisville
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    The Divine Feminine

    Hindu Americans honor the power of women as the fall Navaratri festival gets underway, with implications for religion, culture, and politics

    byMaggie Phillips
  • Holi celebrations at the Hindu Cultural Center at Namaste Shenandoah in Virginia
    Holi celebrations at the Hindu Cultural Center at Namaste Shenandoah in Virginia
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    Chasing the Hindu Vote

    Virginia’s recent gubernatorial election put a spotlight on the community, and how its political leanings are being shaped

    byMaggie Phillips
  • Diamonds are displayed during International Diamond Week in the Israeli town of Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, on Feb. 5, 2018.
    Diamonds are displayed during International Diamond Week in the Israeli town of Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, on Feb. 5, 2018.
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    Israel’s Indian Diamond Dealers

    For decades, diamond cutters and merchants from India—many of them Jains—have made their home in Tel Aviv. But their future prospects are cloudy.

    byAnna Behrmann
  • Swami Chidananda Saraswati
    Swami Chidananda Saraswati
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    My Jewish Encounter With Hinduism

    How I came to an intellectual and spiritual connection with Swami Chidananda Saraswati

    byAlon Goshen-Gottstein
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    How a Symbol of Love Became a Symbol of Hate

    Growing up Hindu, I understood the swastika as a symbol of auspiciousness. But this week’s vandalism at The New School was a stark reminder of its appropriated—and very present—meaning: hate.

    byTanvi Bale
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    The Long Search for a Comfortable Position as a Jew Who Practices Yoga

    I felt guilty finding spiritual fulfillment outside my faith, until I realized that Judaism and yoga don’t have to be mutually exclusive

    byHolly Lebowitz Rossi
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    A Passage to Gujarat

    Esther David’s novels chronicle a community of Jews in a province riddled with ethnic violence

    byAmy Rosenberg
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