The Jews of India: A Conversation with Romiel Daniel

Romiel Daniel will lead a discussion of Jewish life in India. He will walk the audience through a short video of Indian Jewish ceremonies and lead a singing session of Ashkenazi and Indian melodies.
Romiel Daniel was the President of the Magen Abraham Synagogue, Ahmedabad, India from 1986-1990, where he conducted Jewish Education Classes and other religious festivals for the community in Ahmedabad including Purim/Passover Seders and Hanukkah. He conducted the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at the Village Temple in New York from 1995-2010 in the Bene Israel tradition for the Indian Jews in America. He is the President of the Rego Park Jewish Center, President of the Minyan Club and President of The Indian Jewish Congregation of USA.
Mr. Daniel also has been written up in the New York Times, Daily News, Jewish Week, Newsday, Jewish Press, Forward, Jewish Voice, Queens Tribune, Chronicle, Courier and several other newspapers. He has released one audiocassette and one CD to preserve the liturgy and the Bene Israel melodies of Yom Kippur, Selichoth and the Sabbath. Mr. Daniel is a full-fledged Cantor having studied Ashkenazi Cantorial music at Yeshiva University under Cantor Joseph Malovany, Cantor Sherwood Goffin and Cantor Bernard Beer. In addition, he is the Director-Global Imports for a large apparel firm. He has a Master’s degree in Chemistry from Brandeis University.
Sponsored by Brown RISD Hillel and the Year of India.
Location: Brown RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street.