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Fried Plantains, Potato Blintzes and even Cerviche are enjoyed by Latin American Jews celebrating this festival of lights.
What is Hannukah?
The Bronx Museum contains Diego Rivera's "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon", a 15 foot mural of Spain's history. In a small portion of that piece, Diego depicts the torturing/killing of Jews that caused those who survived to leave for "Las Americas" during this horriic time in Spain's history.
What is the Spanish inquisition?
This "Jewish" language spoken by Ashkenazy Jews remains vibrant in Argentina.
What is Yiddish?
"Snoa" a Ladino word, Ladion being derived from Spanish, Hebrew and Aramaic, refers to this type of building used for Jewish worship and community center.
What is a synagogue?
Fumaca, a dip of roasted eggplant and fish escabeche, is served in Brazil and other places for lunch as Jews observe this weekly holiday.
What is Shabbat?
Sphardic Jews who settled in Las Americas mostly came from these two southwestern European countries.
What are Spain and Portugal?
Festival of Santa Esterica: A holiday created by Anusim (Sephard Jews forced to convert or Catholicism) is still celebrated in Latin America as a substitute for this Queen Esther Jewish holiday.
What is Purim?
Synagogues in "Las Americas" serve Jewish communities by being the hub of Judaism, providing religeous practice and education, engaging with the local Jewish and other communities, similar in function to this congregation located in Glencoe, Illinois right by Lake Michigan.
What is NSCI?
Fish Albandiga (spice fish meatballs) accompany Fumaca for lunch on this every Saturday Jewish Observance?
What is Shabbat?
This Argentinian capital city boasts Latin America's largest Jewish population and is the 14th most Jewish populated city in the world.
What is Buenos Aires?
Shavuot and Sukkot are main Jewish agricultural holidays. In South America, the season are reversed from north of the equator. However, the dates these holidays are celebrated in South America are not changed and follow the dates of this Northern Hemisphere Jewish State remainh out of sync to local agricultural timing.
What is Israel?
Kahir Zul Israel, though no longer open, (still serves as a museum), is believed to be the first synagogue ("Snoa") in "Las Americas" establlished in 1636 in Recife,not rio, this South American country's most important logistics hub.
What is Brazil?
This "Latin" stuffed pastry dish has undergone many variations from places like Latin America, Spain and Morroco. Latin American Jews brought their "spin" on it in the form of the "kinish" incorporating brikset, local spice and vegatable variations.
What is an Empanada?
What are challenges faced by Latin American Jews?
This most important one word named Jewish prayer, where one declares faith to one god, in Las Americas, the prayer name is sometimes used as slang to mean "OH MY GOD!" (for example: :this traffic is horrible___!").
What is Shema?
Santiago Chile's Lo Barnecea neighborhood, also known as "Little _____" is home to 15,000 of Santiago's 20,000 Jews, and, features a its own fire truck with Hebrew writing and Jewish community center named Estadio Israelita Maccabi, which has a heavy emphasis on sports programs.
What is Little Israel
Kemia de remolaches, beet salad with cumin and other small plates are eaten by Jews in this country with the largest Jewish population in Latin America.
What is Argentina?
This North American capital city that takes its namesake from its country boasts many Ashkenazy Jews as well as Halabi (Aleppan) and Shami (Demascene), Jews who emigrated from Syria in the 1920's and 1930's.
What is Mexico City?
While the local language (mostly Spanish) and Hebrew are primary in Latin American Jewish Prayer, this language derived from Spanish, Hebrew and Aramaic is also interjected in Latin American Jewish worship.
What is Ladino?
Like many years ago, Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synangogue, is still known as "The Snoa" and is located in Willemstad, Curacao.
What is Latin America's oldest operating synagogue?