IBNS: Kochi witnessed a special wedding on Sunday when the south Indian city hosted the first Jewish marriage in 15 years, media reports said.
Bride Rachel Binoy Malakhi and groom Richard Zachary Rowe said their vows at a lakeside resort in Kumbalam, in a ceremony solemnised by Rabbi Aryeal Tsion, an Israeli who flew down for the occasion, reports The News Minute.
Rachel, a native of Thiruvananthapuram, is a genome scientist working in the USA. She is the daughter of former Superintendent of Police Binoy Malakhi and clinical psychologist Manjusha Miriam Emmanuel. On May 22, she married Richard, an aerospace engineer working at NASA. He is an American Jew born to Sandy Rowe and Richard Rowe, reports the newspaper.
The wedding ceremony followed all Jerish rituals.
The wedding ceremony was held under a canopy called ‘Huppah’.
At Rachel and Richard’s wedding, they said their vows and exchanged rings. The function was attended by close family members including Anna Riya Malakhi, the bride’s sister and 20 members of the groom’s family, reports the newspaper.
Interestingly, Kochi has a small Jewish population of 25 people.
The last Jewish wedding was held in the city in 2008.
