CHANUKAh IS a very important Jewish religious holiday. This year, it lasts from December 7 to 15, but there were pre-Chanukah celebrations at Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St Andrew on the evening of Wednesday, November 29. In the space, flyers.
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Marina Delfos is on a mission. Working with a group of people who come to Jamaica each year through Caribbean Volunteer Expeditions and a handful of local volunteers, she is helping to take inventory of the area’s Jewish gravestones, trying to make sense of the 360-year-old and oft-forgotten Jamaican Jewish past.
Were there Jewish pirates in the Caribbean? Aye. But were the Jews lying beneath the three century-old tombstones in Kingston, Jamaica, decorated with skull and crossbones pirates? Nay.