[caption id="attachment_17749" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Jewish community in India[/caption] Jews in India is a long lost story. While history says that there are two distinct ancient Jewish communities which resided in India- the Cochin Jews of South and the Bene Israel of West India. History has it that the Bene Israel (Sons of Israel) lived primarily in the cities of Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad and Karachi in the undivided India. The native language of them therefore was Judeo- Marathi. They arrived in India nearly 2100 years ago after a shipwreck stranded seven Jewish families from Judea at Navagaon near Alibag, south of Mumbai. Jews in Baroda during Gaekwads Vadodara and Jewish connection goes back in

Author-Gopi Shah