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‪The legacy of Jewish Naturalist Garcia da Orta in Goa‬

05 Wednesday Feb 2014

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Garcia da Orta are among the most famous goans. A paper was presented in the local press by Dr. Nandkumar M. Kamat of Goa University, to bring light to the legacy of this Portuguese Jewish scholar.

An OP-ED was published in The Navhind Times on 8th of April 2013.

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‪Catholic priest Cosme confirms Apostle Thomas came to Goa‬

05 Wednesday Feb 2014

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Catholic priest Cosme of Pilar quote Chronicle confirming Jewish Apostle Thomas arrived in Goa in India, where he baptized two Hindus.

After his arrival in Goa, the Apostle traveled south to the coast of Kerala.

Catholic priest Cosme confirms Roman coins found at Pilar, Goa

04 Tuesday Feb 2014

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Catholic Priest Cosme is the curator of Pilar Museum, Goa, India where a Thomas Cross found in Goa is kept.

The cross is dated around 700 A.D. There are also two Roman coins in the Museum, that proves ancient links between Goa and the Mediterranean Sea around 350 A.D.

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Israel: The bridge between Europe, Africa and Asia

02 Sunday Feb 2014

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Deputy Consular General of Israel at Mumbai, Mr. Matan Zamir, inaugurated the Heritage conference by taking the delegates on a round trip inside the state of Israel.

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Lecture by Ivar Fjeld on Jerusalem and Ophir

02 Sunday Feb 2014

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Ivar Fjeld is a senior journalist based in Goa, India.

He has done research into Pre- Portuguese Christianity in Goa, and an ancient Jewish Settlement. In this lecture Fjeld focus on the city of Jerusalem as the center of the World, and a likely location of Biblical Ophir on the Konkan coast.

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Last minute changes in program

28 Tuesday Jan 2014

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proWe 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.

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Dr. Shalva Weil the Chief Guest and keynote speaker

27 Monday Jan 2014

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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 to give us a keynote on the Jews of Goa.

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

19 Sunday Jan 2014

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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.

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

11 Saturday Jan 2014

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The post on the Heritage weekend program will be for special invitees: Exch1Exch2Excha4

200 seated for the 2nd of February conference

09 Thursday Jan 2014

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