This morning, New York Times editor Vanessa Friedman criticized Ivanka Trump for the clothes she chose to wear during her trip as the leader of the US delegation to the eighth annual Global entrepreneurship Summit in India this past week. Although Friedman held back from fully eviscerating Trump and attempted to inject some balance (with…
The Indian city of Hyderabad is rounding up and jailing beggars before it hosts an international conference at which First Daughter Ivanka Trump will lead the American delegation. Nearly 400 beggars were picked up and sent to a “rehabilitation center” at the Chanchalguda Jail, the Indian Express reported. The city’s police commissioner has banned all…
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Barefoot walks on the beach, warm hugs, lots of mutual admiration, hesitant attempts to speak each other’s language. And giggles. The bromance between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu –- culminating this week in Modi’s Israel visit — played out like a young adult summer novel. But “India and…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India ended a historic three-day visit to Israel by asserting that the “successful visit will add more energy to India-Israel relations.” Modi and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, spent most of the trip together, during which the two governments signed several economic and agricultural agreements. The…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to Israel, calling his visit “historic.” Modi arrived in Israel on Tuesday afternoon, the first visit to Israel by an Indian head of government. The visit comes 25 years after the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. Modi visited Israel…
Israelis with Indian backgrounds seem to love Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Approximately 4,000 Israeli Jews whose families have roots in India are expected to attend a keynote event hosted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a much-anticipated July visit to Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported. “We expect a crowd of around 4,000 Indian…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be making a diplomatic visit to Israel next month. However, in an unusual move, he will not meet with the Palestinian Authority. “This is going to be a purely bilateral visit. He is coming to visit us, and only us,” a senior Israeli official told the Times of Israel….
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 102 immigrants to Israel from India, members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community, are ready to leave their absorption center. The olim, who came to Israel in February from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, have completed their required formal conversion to Judaism and intensive Hebrew language studies, the Shavei Israel…
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