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Cuban Jews

Lidia Perez (right) celebrates Hanukkah with her daughter in a scene from “Los Últimos Judíos de Guantánamo.” (SFJFF)
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S.F. Jewish Film Festival: Northern California filmmaker visits the ‘Last Jews of Guantanamo’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull July 11, 2024July 12, 2024

J. is a media sponsor of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. See full coverage here. In the rundown streets of Guantanamo in southeastern Cuba, a hardy Jewish grandmother in sneakers […]

The synagogue of Guantanamo, Cuba, on the second floor of the Mizrahi household, on the eve of the community's 90th anniversary celebration (Photo/Laura Paull)
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Local fundraising event to aid Cuban Jews

Sue Barnett 2025 by Sue Barnett August 20, 2021August 21, 2021
A group from the Osher Marin JCC visiting Cuba, Jan. 2020. (Fred Greene)
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We found strength, camaraderie and happiness among Cuba’s Jews

Marc Dollinger by Marc Dollinger February 3, 2020February 19, 2020
Hal Redsun as a Navy medic in 1946 (Photo/Courtesy Hal Redsun)
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A sailor remembers High Holidays in 1946 in Guantanamo, Cuba

Hal Redsun today (Photo/Alan J. Manewitz-AJM Photo) by Harold Redsun September 24, 2019September 23, 2019
The synagogue of Guantanamo, Cuba, on the second floor of the Mizrahi household, on the eve of the community's 90th anniversary celebration (Photo/Laura Paull)
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Reporter’s notebook: Celebrating 90 years of Jewish community in Guantanamo

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 28, 2019July 2, 2024

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