Special conference in Israel for Catholics and Jews
WILLEMSTAD - Rabbi Daniel Kripper from Aruba and Hazzan Avery Tracht, the Spiritual Leader of Mikvé Israel-Emanuel, better known as the SNOA on Curaçao, have both been invited by the Catholic Church to a special More...
In Curacao, they built their shul on sand
It’s an average Monday afternoon and Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue, in Willemstad, Curacao, is bustling. There are many visitors in the adjacent museum and in the sandy-floored main synagogue a young girl, a More...
The liqueur-making Jews of Curaçao
WILLEMSTAD – According to Leah Falk of the popular food and drink website forward.com, you should check your margarita glass when talking about the oldest continually active Jewish congregation in the Americas. Congregation More...
Jewish communities of the Caribbean documented in pictures
NEW YORK, USA -- Now facing extinction, the Sephardic Jewish communities of the Caribbean were once so strong and influential that they helped fuel the success of the American Revolution, and finance the first synagogues More...
