{"id":1150,"date":"2017-11-26T22:29:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T22:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2017-11-26T22:43:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T22:43:39","slug":"life-with-the-bene-ephraim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2017\/11\/life-with-the-bene-ephraim\/","title":{"rendered":"Life with the Bene Ephraim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/asianjewishlife.org\/pages\/articles\/spring2010\/AJL_Featured_India_Journal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a> in Asian Jewish Life, Rabbi Gerald Sussman and Bonita Nathan Sussman discuss their experiences with the Bene Ephraim.<\/p>\n<p>In south-eastern India, isolated from the established Jewish communities of India and world Jewry, live the Bene Ephraim of Kotah Reddy Palem, India in the central state of Andra Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>From 19 July to 7 August 2007, my husband and I visited with this unknown Jewish community as volunteers for the outreach organization Kulanu. This small community\u2019s needs are great but they are hospitable and warm, eager to reconnect and establish connections with the worldwide community of Jews.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&gt;Here is our journey:<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article in Asian Jewish Life, Rabbi Gerald Sussman and Bonita Nathan Sussman discuss their experiences with the Bene Ephraim. In south-eastern India, isolated from the established Jewish communities of India and world Jewry, live the Bene Ephraim of Kotah Reddy Palem, India in the central state of Andra Pradesh. From 19 July to <a href=\"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2017\/11\/life-with-the-bene-ephraim\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,113,78,76],"tags":[],"coauthors":[107,120],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-holidays","category-modern-judaism","category-womens-forum"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}