Noah's ark

I am grateful to Ismail Ali, Adam Amir, Easha Anand, Tamila Gresham, Arlyn Katen, Anuradha Sivaram, Shira Tevah, Ryan Whitacre, and Abby Woodruff for excellent research assistance.

Differently, the profile portrait face of Daniel Elijah Benjamin (Gadkar)--who died shortly after he was interviewed--floats, skullcap (kippah) on his head, in a circle of gold-leaf that, in turn, like a Byzantine halo floats within Pune's Succoth Shelomo Synagogue interior, just above the pulpit (tevah).