It was a beautiful Caribbean day, and my brother Mendel and two of his fellow rabbinical students were driving down the streets of the small coastal town of Soufrière, pop. 8000. He was spending the day on the south of our island, looking for Jews, focusing on Soufrière, the island’s…

This afternoon, I landed in the former Kazakh capital of Almaty as part of a Chabad delegation to the central Asian republic. With borders still shuttered due to the pandemic, Chabad Chassidim and rabbis received special permission for a small group to enter the country (for less than 24 hours)…

Ever fast roped out of a helicopter to join Chabad for Rosh Hashanah? Well, that's exactly what senior navy officer Ken wanted to do! In late September of 2019, the USNS Comfort III reached our beautiful island with a small contingency of Jewish service members. As part of a six-month…

I sat for three hours at the non air-conditioned ferry terminal on our island’s capital of Castries, along with about another one-hundred people, waiting for our packages from the nearby French territory of Martinique. Some people were waiting for packages with clothing or European electrical appliances, amongst other items not…

To help you get started on your Jewish Caribbean library, we’ve curated six books that will inspire, enlighten and educate the keen reader on the little-known history of North America’s first Jewish communities. Is there a Caribbean Jewish book that you recommend? Comment below! Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean How a…