Last minute changes in program

We have made ID-badges ready at the reception of Hotel Vivanta. Please bring a proof of identity with you. (Passport, Credit-card or voter ID-card).

During registration from 8.30 A.M to 9.30 AM, you will be given a welcome kit.

Published by head of Secretariat.

Dr. Shalva Weil the Chief Guest and keynote speaker

Dr. Shalva Weil, Senior Researcher at the Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Shalva Weil will come to Goa and give us a keynote related to the restoration of village synagogues in Kerala.

She can be considered the foremost scholar on Indian Jews today.

She is editor of India’s Jewish Heritage: Ritual, Art, and Life-Cycle (Marg 2002; 3rd edition 2009),

and Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century: A Perspective from the Margin (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor of  Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2008).

Shalva Weil is a graduate of the London School of Economics and received her D. Phil in social anthroplogy from Sussex University, UK, during which time she conducted three years’ fieldwork among the Bene Israel Indian Jews in Israel. Her publications include 80 articles on the Bene Israel, an edited volume on Cochin Jews, essays on the Baghdadi Jews, entries on Indian Jewry in all major encyclopaedias,and papers on the Shinlung (“Bnei Menasseh”) in Mizoram and Manipur, as well as articles in scientific journals on other subjects, such as ethnicity, diaspora, ritual and gender.

Dr. Weil is founding Chairperson (with Zubin Mehta as President) of the Israel-India Cultural Association, the official friendship association between the two countries. Today, she is a board member of the new Israel-India Friendship Association.

In 1991, she curated an exhibition at Beth Hatefutsoth: the Museum of the Jewish Diaspora on the Ten Lost Tribes, in which India was prominently featured. In 1996, she  was invited by Prime Minister Narasimha Rao to attend the India Studies Symposium, where she lectured on Co-Existence in India: the Case of the Cochin Jews. In 2002, she organised an international conference on Indo-Judaic studies at Oxford University, a field in which she is a forerunner. She is on the editorial board of Indian and international journals, including the International Journal of Hindu Studies  and the Journal of Indo-Judaic Studies.

In 2006, she co-curated an exhibition on the Jews of Chendamangalam in the newly-restored village synagogue in Kerala. Today, she  advises  the Kerala government on the restoration of the Cochin Jewish synagogue in Parur, and ancient contacts with Muziris.

In March 2013, Dr. Weil lectured and co-organised a conference in Eilat, Israel and Aqaba, Jordan on ancient trade in the Red Sea. In May 2013, Dr. Weil was invited to lecture at Stanford University on the Kirtan among Indian Jews, followed by lectures in the Department of South Asian Studies at Santa Barbara University, and a lecture at the Magnes Museum at Berkeley University at California on the reconstruction of synagogues in Kerala.

Download Conference videos from Youtube

All the keynotes will be recorded on video. From our new channel on Youtube.com, you will be able to download all the conference video’s for free.

You can search for the channel and see our first video published.

 

The conference video’s will also be made available on this official conference website.

An historial chanse to build strong friendship

The post on the Heritage weekend program will be for special invitees:

200 seated for the 2nd of February conference

Official conference t-shirt available at venue

This high quality t-shirt will be for sale at the conference venue.

This t-shirt can be purchased at the venue.

There will be stalls at the Conference venue, where books and t-shirts will be for sale.

The Official t-shirt is of the high quality material “dry fit”, and comes in light colors.  The t-shirt comes in sizes of S, M,L and XL, and will be sold for 300 Rs.

The conferance venue at the heart of Panjim city

Taj Hotel Vivanta at Panjim is located 300 meters from the Mandowi river at the heart of Panjim city. Useful numbers when visiting Goa:

Booking of transport and Hotel: Bernadine Fernandes: 9657176154

Sightseeing at St. Augustine complex, Old Goa: Mr. Allan D’Souza: 9422443876

(0832) 2541644 — Dabolim Airport: (35 kilometers from Panjim).

Domestic Airlines
2428181 — Indian Airlines
2438792 — Jet Airways
2230237 — Jet Lite
18001803333 — Spice Jet
1800222111 — Go Airlines
18001803838 — Indigo Airlines

2412121 — Goa Helpline

100 — Police (Toll Free)

2428360 — Panjim Police (Headquaters)

Railway Reservations
2285798 — Karmali (near Old Goa, 12 kilometers from Panjim).

Bus Service
2438034 — Kadamba Transport Corp
2438253 — Maharashtra State Road Transport Corp.
2255745 — Laxmi Coach Services

Chemists / Pharmacies (24 hrs. Open)
2220461 — Wagle Medical Store (Panaji)
2435946 — Jeevan Rekha Medical Stores (Panaji)

Hospitals:
2458700 — GMC (Bambolim)
2453301 — Manipal Hospital (Dona Paula) (5 Kilometers from Vivanta Hotel).

Ambulance Services
9823059948 — Vintage Ambulance (Panjim). (One kilometer meters from Vivanta Hotel.)

The official websites of the venue:

We have got very favorable rates at Hotel Vivanta of the Taj, Panjim, Goa. If you book in advance, you can get a room for 10.500,- Rupee per night. Packages that includes meals are also available.

Click on the images to go to the sites

CFI seminar with Dr. Smith Ephraim

National Coordinator of CFI in India Dr. Smith Ephraim will hold a seminar.

Click on this image to come to the CFI website.

Christian Friends of Israel-Jerusalem (CFI) is an international evangelical Christian ministry legally registered in Israel with headquarters in Jerusalem where we operate multiple outreaches and administrate the ministry.

Link to CFI in Jerusalem

https://cfijerusalem.org/web/

Get listed for “Operation Exodus” seminar

National Coordinator of Operation Exodus in India Mrs. Deepa Thomas will hold a seminar.

Click on the link to come to the website of Operation Exodus.

Since its inception in 1982, God has enabled Ebenezer to help more than 128,000 Jewish people make more than 128,000 Jewish people make aliyah, more than 128,000 Jewish people make (The Hebrew word for “going up,” as in ascending to Jerusalem.) by sea and on flights sponsored by the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Link to website of Operation Exodus.