Hundreds of Krishna devotees, mostly Jews, gathered at Moshav Aviel in northern Israel to celebrate Janmashtami with chants, music, dance and a play on Krishna and Radha. The annual celebration, rooted in Indian culture, concluded with a feast of 108 vegetarian dishes served as Krishna Prasadam.
Moshav Aviel: Chants of “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” reverberated through northern Israel's Moshav Aviel, as hundreds of Krishna devotees, most of them Jews, gathered from across the country to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami.
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Janmashtami marks the birth of Lord Krishna, who is revered as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
The cultural centre at the pastoral moshav (agriculture-based collective community) in Israel, located close to a township home to a small group of devotees of Lord Krishna, popularly known here as "Hare Krishnas", came alive on Friday, with the hall decked in Krishna and Indian motifs.
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