Cuba

US-funded Spanish-language network fires staffers over report calling George Soros ‘multimillionaire Jew’

Radio and Television Marti, which broadcasts news to Cuba to push American foreign policy interests, also featured right-wing conspiracy theories.

By Marcy Oster March 5, 2019 8:37 am

US-funded Spanish language network produced segment about ‘multimillionaire Jew’ George Soros

TV Marti currently falls under the United States Agency for Global Media, an independent U.S. government agency, and costs the U.S. government at least $24 million a year.

October 28, 2018 4:39 pm

Cuban Jewish leaders call on US Jewish community to strengthen ties

Last month, President Trump limited business and educational travel to the island nation and restricted commerce.

July 13, 2017 9:15 am

Alan Gross, after spending 5 years in a Cuban prison, is starting over in Israel

By Ron Kampeas July 12, 2017 5:44 pm

A Jewish Cuban pitcher gets a firm grip on life in Israel

By Hillel Kuttler March 2, 2017 5:28 pm

Yiddish-Cuban opera to premiere in Havana

February 23, 2017 7:27 am

Leonard Cohen’s Vacation in Castro’s Cuba

By Avishay Artsy

from Jewniverse

Alan Gross on Fidel Castro: ‘History will never absolve him’

November 27, 2016 9:46 am

Two Jews in Love (in Yiddish) in Havana

By Abby Sher