Chabad sent an emissary to St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Rabbi Asher Federman and his wife Henya, from New York, will serve the community estimated at 800 to 1,000 people. It’s the second Chabad outpost in the Caribbean, after Puerto Rico.
Keep Jewish Stories in Focus.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
