(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 ...

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 ...

Leaders of Cuba’s Jewish community met with jailed American contractor Alan Gross on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. Adele Dworin, president of the Hebrew Community of Cuba, and David Prinstein, vice ...

HAVANA (AP) – Cuban Jewish leaders said Friday that they celebrated Hanukkah with imprisoned U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross this week, two days after he marked four years in custody. A ...

The 29th Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) proudly presents the World Premiere of From Cuba to America, a powerful, Miami-made documentary that captures the spirit of exile, resilience, and ...

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 ...

A few years ago, Adela Dworin noticed a tall stranger in a worn T-shirt looking around the Beth Shalom synagogue in Havana’s Vedado section. When she greeted him and struck up a conversation, he asked ...

Cuba’s decimated Jewish community now numbers slightly under 2, 800 souls–as compared with about 15, 000 Jews living there before the Castro revolution–a report received here today from Havana said.

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 ...

Ruth Behar will explore “The Jews of Cuba and their Diasporas: Memories, Stories, Dilemmas,” in Emory’s annual Tenenbaum Lecture. Photo credit: Ivona Blanco Gross Emory’s annual Tenenbaum Lecture will ...

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 ...