Jewish life in the Americas stretches back to the very beginnings of European colonization, though often in hidden form. In the late 15th and 16th centuries, following the expulsions from Spain (1492) and Portugal (1497), some Sephardic
The capital of this southern region of The Netherlands is also known as the City of the Four Freedoms, a tribute to the descendant of a native son, Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is home to one active synagogue and two Jewish cemeteries. Pictured below is
Read more…Yes, of course, the four capitals of Central Europe we visited on our Danube River cruise with Grand Circle Tours – Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, and Budapest – were all wrapped in wonder, overwhelmed with their impressive history, expansive promenad
On this holiday of freedom, when our ability to travel is severely restricted, I post this inspiring 20th century story of breaking the bonds of oppression, plus a tale of solidarity during WWII that saved a beautiful synagogue. Wishing you all a hap
Read more…Remarkably, from 1933 until 1945, China’s ultramodern metropolis provided safe haven to 23,000 Jewish refugees. In fact, Shanghai was one of only two locales in the world that agreed to take them. The other was the Dominican Republic. But since
Read more…Greece’s second largest city and environs have a lot to offer the tourist -- especially the Jewish visitor
Story and photos by Buzzy Gordon
Hamam Yehudi
There are not many of Israel’s neighbors in the eastern Mediterranean of whom it can be sa
A modest placard beside a storefront door announces the existence of the Beth Minzi Synagogue in Torrremolinos on Spain’s Costa del Sol. It is a Friday night in late February, and some twenty men, a few fathers with young sons, and three women assemb
"I am the last Jew in all of the Azores,” Jorge Delmar tells us. He is a stocky man in his early 50s who runs an import/export business in Ponta Delgada, the capital city of São Miguel, largest of the nine islands that comprise the Portuguese archip
The many-centuries-long saga of the Sephardim, the Jews of Sepharad (as they called the Iberian Peninsula) reaches back to Roman Hispania (and there are suggestions there might have been trade links dating back even to Old Testament times). As elsewh
There are a lot of Jewish museums out there these days, but this one, unlike most, is not about biblical history, the Holocaust, or Israel. It's about an ethnic group in a country where people could (and can) forge new paths, where one of the themes
The Big Apple is famously the world’s biggest melting pot, both of people and cuisines. But there’s one that reaches its pinnacle in New York City, a kind of cookery that you should make a point of sampling, whether you visit on holiday or business:
Oy vey, olé! Everyone knows that most Jews in Spain were given the royal boot back in 1492, the same year Chris Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue, right? Well, yes and no. Some managed to hang on, and the story of how they did so in secret constitutes a
A Tripatini member has a question re things of Jewish interest in this Asian destination. If you have any thoughts/suggestions, please reply NOT here but at this link to our Ask A Travel Pro forum.
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I will be on a FAM to Israel's Negev region to cover various health stories, but have added a couple of extra days to write on luxury and lifestyle travel in Haifa. I am looking for publicists who rep hotels in Haifa who may be able to host me or of
Read more…Here's an interesting story about Jewish New York...coming out of New Zealand, of all places: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10772754
Read more…Jewish community in Zoppot
The first Jews arrived to Sopot in about 1860. In 1869 there were only 5 Jews living there. While Sopot was gaining in importance as a sea resort, the number of Jewish inhabitants was gradually growing . It was a very popu
