The merger is one of scores of similar mergers throughout the United States in recent years, as liberal synagogues face financial challenges and declining membership numbers.
Jews from Denmark first arrived on the white beaches of what is now St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands—a tiny speck off the coast of Puerto Rico—in the mid-17th century. These were descendants of a Jewish population that had fled Spain for other parts of Europe during the Inquisition. St. Thomas afforded them a certain religious […]
The money is to pay for guards and other security measures for private Jewish schools and for synagogue security, as well as for a control center for the operations of the security watchdog Community Security Trust.