(JTA) — On a recent Friday night inside this city’s Beth Shalom synagogue, Aliet Ashkenazi, 25, stood draped in a blue-and-white prayer shawl leading prayers in a mix of Spanish and near-perfect ...
(JTA) — Juan Bradman was still in his twenties when he became a circuit judge in rural Cuba, traveling among the provinces. But in 1962, after the communist takeover by Fidel Castro, he and his wife ...
HAVANA, Cuba, May 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Stan Polovets, Co-founder and Chairman of The Genesis Prize Foundation, visited Havana this week to meet with Hella Askenazi, Vice President of the Cuban ...
Two Cuban Jewish leaders visited jailed American contractor Alan Gross and said they found him in “good spirits.” Adela Dworin, head of Cuba’s Jewish community, and David Prinstein, president of the ...
In “Dwell Time,” art conservator Rosa Lowinger tells what her family found and lost when they settled in Miami. Rosa Lowinger knows this from a lifetime of study of how things are made and how they ...
The Jewish community in Cuba has declined by 300 persons during the past year to a total of 2, 100, according to reports from Havana received here today, and based on registration during the past year ...
The short film "The Last Jews of Guantanamo" follows two octogenarians in Cuba who have a bat mitzvah, which they were unable to have when they were young. “Stories of joy, resilience, hard work, deep ...
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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Jennifer Stempel is a recipe developer, cooking instructor and author of “With a Needle and Thread: A Jewish Folktale from Cuba,” a children’s book that will be out in October. A classically trained ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - A Cuban Jewish leader said U.S. contractor Alan Gross looked fit and in good spirits when she visited him at the military hospital where he is serving a 15-year prison sentence for ...
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