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Building Jewish Life in Cuba

JDC gives Jewish children and adults access to Jewish programming in Havana and the island's smaller communities.
JDC helps facilitate brit milah and other Jewish life cycle celebrations for Cuba's 1,500 Jews.
This Israeli folk dance troupe is part of Rikudim, a popular island-wide dance program with a JDC-supported instructor.
JDC helps coordinate Shabbat dinners and Jewish holiday celebrations in Santiago de Cuba, home to one of Cuba's five active synagogues.
Jaime Gans Grin has chronicled the history of Jewish life in Cuba.
100+ children and adults learn Jewish traditions in Sunday School classes at the Patronato Synagogue and Jewish Community Center in Havana.
The community pharmacy in Havana, started by JDC, makes medicines available to anyone who needs them throughout the island.
Today, young Jews in Cuba are becoming bar/bat mitzvah through a program JDC initiated in 2003—the first organized study program of its kind in Cuba in 40 years.
Havana’s renovated Patronato Synagogue and JCC houses a library, social hall, classroom, youth center, computer room, and the community pharmacy.
With JDC support, Cuba’s Jewish youth connect with their Jewish peers across the island through annual summer camp experiences.

Tags for this gallery: Camps / Retreats, Children, Jewish Holiday Celebrations

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