Don’t We All Want Geulah?
The annual Sigd festival is the major Yom Tov when the Ethiopian Jewish community reaffirms their commitment to Hashem and express their longing for Mashiach
Tag: Mesorah Quest
Manila Envelope
After davening Shacharis in Manila’s daily minyan and meeting the rabbi of this tiny community together, we unsealed a Southeast Asian treasure
Laws of the Jungle
In Papua New Guinea, a land where hunters live by their arrows, and children wield machetes, there are tribesmen who be ...
Greeting the Ghosts of Salonika
While Salonika served as a haven for centuries, it couldn’t save itself from the Nazi onslaught. Could this ancient city ...
Under Coats of Paint
Prague might be the Jewish tourist capital of the Czech Republic, but there’s another narrative buried in the rural towns ...
We’re All Igbo
We have been to many emerging Jewish-identifying communities around the globe, but we never imagined we’d find dozens of t ...
Preserved in the Land of the Dodo
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 ...
Jewish Core in Island Lore
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 h ...
Meat and Memories in Uruguay
Did a crypto-Jewish community in Uruguay date back to the 1700s? Today a dwindling modern community led by dedicated rabbi ...
Argentina’s Other Revolution
When we stumbled upon the town of Resistencia, we discovered not only a shul, but a veritable teshuvah movement in the ...
A Drop in the Ocean
It was the opportunity of my dreams: a week on a sailboat bobbing up and down on the ocean waves, not a soul i ...
