Prague might be the Jewish tourist capital of the Czech Republic, but there’s another narrative buried in the rural towns and farming villages
We have been to many emerging Jewish-identifying communities around the globe, but we never imagined we’d find dozens of these “kehillos” in the remotest parts of Nigeria
Mauritius doesn’t have a long Jewish history, but it turned into an unplanned prison refuge for a shipload of Jews outrunning the Nazis. Fascinated, we dropped onto that piece of land jutting up from the Indian Ocean.
Madagascar, best known for lemurs, chameleons, rain forests, and the baobab tree, is also, according to island legend, one of the points of settlement of the Ten Lost Tribes. We had to see it for ourselves
Did a crypto-Jewish community in Uruguay date back to the 1700s? Today a dwindling modern community led by dedicated rabbis tries to put the brakes on assimilation
When we stumbled upon the town of Resistencia, we discovered not only a shul, but a veritable teshuvah movement in the making
