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'Malida and The Sustainability of the Small Indian Jewish Community in NYC and the TriState Area' is an article commissioned by an editor a couple of years back, then nixed. The editor, as many writers experience, then ghosted me. I am sharing this piece on this platform since I thought you might find it interesting and also to keep a record of my journalistic writings.
Before the Coronavirus hit us, I wrote
two-part series in Hebrew about two Israeli female chefs conquering the food scene in D.C. Articles of mine were
previously translated into Hebrew, but it was the first time I wrote articles in Hebrew from scratch. It felt like coming a full circle. The articles were indefinitely shelved as the world turned topsy-turvy, but it's no reflection on the excellent editor I am working with. The timing was understandably off, which we couldn't predict in advance. You can find
images of the articles in my
published and mentions if you can read and comprehend Hebrew. I might publish them on this site in the future.
Malida and The Sustainability of the Small Indian Jewish Community in NYC and the TriState Area
In Rego Park Jewish Center, Queens, Romiel Daniel, an Indian Jew, is the Rabbi and President of this Ashkenazi (Eastern European Jewish) Conservative synagogue. Across the street from the synagogue is where Rabbi Daniel and his wife, Noreen, reside.
It's uncommon for a Sephardic (Jewish from a Spanish descent) or an Indian Jew to lead an Ashkenazi synagogue, but Rego Park Jewish Center, which was founded in 1939, had a precedent. Its previous President was of Egyptian Sephardi Jewish ancestry. Rabbi Daniel finished his Masters in chemistry from Brandeis University in 1962 and is now on his second career. After Cantorial studies at Yeshiva University, he was ordained through the American of Board Rabbis and became a Rabbi in 2010.
