Religious minority status to Jews
July 13 , 2018
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- Gujarat became third state in India to grant religious minority status to Jews after West Bengal and Maharashtra.
- In this regard, State’s Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has issued Government Resolution (GR) to this effect.
- With this, there are now seven religious minorities in the state. The other six are - Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains.
- West Bengal had granted the Minority Status to Jews over a decade ago. while, Maharashtra had accorded minority status for Jews in 2017
- The Jewish community of India is the fourth largest Asian Jewish community after Israel, Asian Russia, and Iran.
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