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  • Clockwise from the top: David Sassoon (in a 1792 drawing); David Sassoon with his sons Elias David, Albert (Abdullah), and Sassoon David; Solomon and Flora Sassoon’s residence in Mumbai; Victor Sassoon; Solomon David Sassoon and Flora Gubbay on their wedding day, 1867
    Clockwise from the top: David Sassoon (in a 1792 drawing); David Sassoon with his sons Elias David, Albert (Abdullah), and Sassoon David; Solomon and Flora Sassoon’s residence in Mumbai; Victor Sassoon; Solomon David Sassoon and Flora Gubbay on their wedding day, 1867
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    The Dramatic Decline of the ‘Rothschilds of the East’

    The Sassoons were one of the most powerful Jewish families in Asia. What led to their fall from grace?

    byJordyn Haime
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    Save the Children

    Mumbai, 2008: The child of a murdered Chabad rabbi screams for his mother, while a Brooklyn-born Jewish lesbian finds unexpected, exotic love, in an excerpt from ‘Mother India’

    byTova Reich
  • The Masala Mamas
    The Masala Mamas
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    The Masala Mamas, Who Cook for the Children of Mumbai’s Slums, Publish New Kosher Cookbook

    Recipes and interviews with the amazing women who change their community through food and love

    byLeah Koenig
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    For India’s Largest Jewish Community, One Muslim Makes All the Tombstones

    Muhammad Abdul Yassin has worked in Mumbai’s Jewish cemetery for more than 40 years. Now he’s passing the chisel to his sons.

    byRachel Delia Benaim
  • Workers give the finishing touches to the synagogue inside Nariman (Chabad) House in Mumbai on August 26, 2014.(INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)
    Workers give the finishing touches to the synagogue inside Nariman (Chabad) House in Mumbai on August 26, 2014.(INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Mumbai Chabad Reopens Six Years After Attack

    Rabbi and his wife killed during 2008 rampage that left more than 150 dead

    byStephanie Butnick
  • (Photoillustation Tablet Magazine; original photos Wikimedia Commons and Book Chums. )
    (Photoillustation Tablet Magazine; original photos Wikimedia Commons and Book Chums. )
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    India’s Most Famous Jewish Poet

    Nissim Ezekiel, born in Bombay and schooled in London, wrote in English from India about familiar but foreign cultures

    byPatricia Bailey Conway
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    Mumbai Chabad Threatened

    Note cites Hitler, pledges attack

    byMarc Tracy
  • A remembrance service held today at the Mumbai Chabad House.(Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images)
    A remembrance service held today at the Mumbai Chabad House.(Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Suspect in Mumbai Attacks Posed as a Jew

    Six were killed in local Chabad House

    byHadara Graubart
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