NYJW Travel

If Sosúa, an idyllic beach town on the Dominican Republic’s north coast, looks like paradise to us, one can only imagine how pleasant a sight it was for European Jewish refugees in the early 1940s. That was when the Dominican government issued visas to approximately 700 Jews fleeing Nazi Europe, who were delighted to have […]

Between the museums, palaces, theaters and pubs, it’s easy to spend a week in London entirely indoors. Given the famously drab weather, it is often preferable to do so. But every now and again the sky clears, a pale sun bathes the cityscape in a warm light — and it seems a shame to waste […]