This 118-year-old Jewish bakery in India is a hit on Christmas
A selection of some of the Nahoum & Sons pastries.
MYSORE, India (JTA) - From the flashing outdoor lights that deck out Park Street, to the bustling pop-up Christmas market at the central rotunda of the sprawling New Market, Christmas has always been a celebratory affair in Kolkata.
While this year celebrations are toned down due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the damaging after-effects of Cyclone Amphan that hit the city in May, Isaac Nahoum, a Jewish baker who has seen business tumble from more than 300 customers a day to a mere 30 on average, is not worried. The Christmas rush is still coming through.
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This 118-year-old Jewish bakery in India is a hit on Christmas Benjamin Allan Norman Nahoum at the shop in 1979. (Recalling Jewish Calcutta archive)
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MYSORE, India (JTA) From the flashing outdoor lights that deck out Park Street, to the bustling pop-up Christmas market at the central rotunda of the sprawling New Market, Christmas has always been a celebratory affair in Kolkata.
While this year celebrations are toned down due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the damaging after-effects of Cyclone Amphan that hit the city in May, Isaac Nahoum, a Jewish baker who has seen business tumble from more than 300 customers a day to a mere 30 on average, is not worried. The Christmas rush is still coming through.
totally different kind of views of religion in the 1960 s. politicians just did not do that during that time. with all the campaigns he ran, did he enjoy politics? hubert humphrey was the happy warrior. al smith, the happy warrior. was he a happy warrior? absolutely. he would not have been successful, i do not think. any good politician, i think, have to more than tolerate it. in his case, you would have to be a psychiatrist to figure out each politician, but i think he enjoyed the adulation of the crowd. it was a kind of love affair between him and many of his constituency. he was enormously popular in alabama. he loved that feeling of people supporting him. here is more from his 1963 gubernatorial inaugural address. each state within its own framework has the freedom to teach, develop, to ask for and received help from others of separate racial stations. this is a great freedom from our american founding fathers, but if we amalgamate into one unit as advocated by th