Global Nação: Synagogue Tour – Indonesia, Dominican Republic, and St. Thomas

Join us as we explore three more Western Sephardi communities that have spread around the globe

Sunday, 18 April at 10:00AM EDT

Yaakov Baruch was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. His grandmother’s family came from the Netherlands. In 2004 Mr. Baruch opened a synagogue for the Jews of the Netherlands who remain in Indonesia.

Dr. Hakham Yehonatan Elazar-Demota was born in Miami. He comes from a long line of Sephardic families from Spain, Portugal, and North Africa who established themselves in the Caribbean. He is trained as a Hakham, shochet, and mohel. The Sephardic community in La Romana, Dominican Republic was established in 2013. Today there are over 50 families that gather there. The synagogue was established in 2017 in its current location. Members from the community built the hekhal, teba, and a wooden menorah for Hanukkah.