Community Center

Our community center, of approximately 2000m2, located in the Costa del Este urbanization in Panama City, has a main and a small synagogue, library, museum, study rooms, event rooms, kitchen, offices, parking lot, storage rooms, among others. It was consecrated on March 15, 2006.

We have two synagogues, the main synagogue, which seats approximately 300 people (expandable), and a smaller one, Beit Daniel, which seats approximately 50 people.

We have 3 event rooms that can accommodate activities of all types and sizes. They can also be joined to create a large living room. A large industrial kitchen is located next to the halls, which facilitates catering services.

The Eleanor Perkins Study Center houses the Woodrow de Castro Library and the Panamanian Jewish Museum.

The library, with thousands of items, covers Jewish topics from around the world, with an emphasis on the history of Sephardic Jews in the Caribbean and the Americas. We also have a video library with dozens of DVD’s of films and documentaries, mainly on Jewish themes and Israeli productions.

The Panamanian Jewish Museum, created thanks to the initiative, effort and financial support of Lyanne Lindo Wassermann z “l, houses a great variety of artifacts and documents that record the history of the families that founded Congregation Kol Shearith Israel. There you can see a large selection of family trees; a collection of books published by and about our members; cemetery records since 1876 and marriage certificates since 1885; biographies of outstanding members in the evolution of our country; religious artifacts, among others. The museum also houses the Jewish Oral History Project of Panama and the Jewish Archives of Panama.

We have 4 study rooms, in memory of Key Medlinger Himmelfarb, Samuel Wolcovinsky, Vida and Edward Henriquez and Max and Yvonne Delvalle, which allow us to simultaneously carry out educational, cultural, social and recreational activities for different audiences.