In Europe, budding Jewish tourism businesses are teetering on the brink of closure because of COVID-19 “I’m drowning in quicksand,” said the owner of a Warsaw kosher restaurant that lost its income due to the pandemic.
Portugal’s oldest standing shul reopened on remote island Jewish leaders from Lisbon and Massachusetts are convening on Sao Miguel in the Azores, which has only one Jewish resident.
Are Iberia’s pseudo Passovers all about the afiko-money? In areas where Jews live only in memory, non-Jewish Spaniards and Portuguese celebrate Jewish holidays to draw tourists.
