Ow, My Soul

"Ms. Lavi volunteers as the curator of Cochin Jewish Heritage Center, also on Moshav Nevatim, while also working as an administrator at Hebrew University and writing her master’s thesis on the Cochin Jews. 'I’m working for a living and also studying for my soul, and I’m working at the museum also for my soul,' she said. 'They came to Israel so long ago,' she said of her grandparents. 'We don’t see the connection to India anymore. They came to Israel, and that's it.'"