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The Panama Jewish Oral History Project Establishes a Permanent Home

For the last two years the Panama Jewish Oral History Project has had articles published in the KSI Annual Boletin, and this report is being written to make more congregants and friends of KSI better informed of the Project’s activities and to give an update of the recent establishment of the it’s work space within …

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Pekudei 5776 – English

By Rabbi Daniel A. Kripper Beth Israel – Aruba. This section concludes the calculations for the construction and furnishing of the Mishkan, the portable tabernacle built in the desert.Other temples have been built and destroyed throughout our millenary history, and their memory has been preserved in the collective consciousness of Israel.   Today’s synagogue is …

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Vaiakhel 5776 – English

Rabbi Gustavo Kraselnik Congregacion Kol Shearith Israel “Vayakhel Moshe”, (Moses then convoked, Ex. 35:1).  With these words begins the Parashah, the next-to-last in the Book of Shmot.  The first immediate question is who did he convoke.  And the Torah gives us the answer: “the whole Israelite community.”  And for what?  To tell them, “These are …

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KSI English Speaking Group activities highlighted at a recent Jewish community meeting in Boquete!

KSI Jewish Literature Book Club long distance member Barbara Rabkin, a transplant from Cincinnati, Ohio, living in Boquete, decided that it was time to reach out to Jews living in Chiriqui province for the purpose of seeing if there was intersect in organizing Jewish programs.  To this effect she crafted the name JCC (Jewish Community …

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