After moving to Israel, educator Flora Samuel organized the Indian Women's Organiation, which aids Indian women in preserving and demonstrating their community's culture and customs. Bene Israel women were traditionally the producers and preservers of the group's unique culture and, with their strong religious beliefs were deemed to have the power to hold the family together. The Bene Israel of Maharashtra in western India was the largest of the three Jewish communities of India, numbering about 20,000 at its peak in the early 1950s, though the majority have since emigrated to Israel.

Institution: Mei Boli vol. 16, January 1999 (Israel).