For Cuba’s Jews, a rekindling of faith on the island
September 13, 2015
Mimi Whitefield, The Miami Herald
HAVANA-A few years ago, Adela Dworin noticed a tall stranger in a worn T-shirt looking around the Beth Shalom synagogue in Havana’s Vedado section.
When she greeted him and struck up a conversation, he asked her about the needs of the Cuban Jewish community. Dworin, now president of El Patronato, the House of the Cuban Hebrew Community, told him her dream was to send some 50 Jewish athletes from Cuba to the 19th Maccabiah Games in July 2013...