SYNAGOGUES AND CONGREGATIONS



Click on a city on the map, or on a link below, to go to a description of a Jewish community in Cuba
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All requests to visit the Jewish community in Cuba should be addressed to:

Adela Dworin
Vice President of Casa de la Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba
El Patronato
Calle I, #259, Esquina 13
Vedado, Ciudad de la Habana 10400
Cuba
Phone: (537) 832-8953
Fax: (537) 33 3778
E-mail: beth_shalom@enet.cu
or
patronato_ort@enet.cu

Adela Dworin
Adela Dworin, Vice President of
Casa de la Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba

Addresses and Phone Numbers
(53 is the Cuba long distance code; 7 is the Havana code.)

Havana

Patronato Synagogue exterior - Fred Weiner photo

The Patronato reopens!
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El Patronato - la Casa de la
Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba


(Conservative)
Synagoga Beth Shalom (Conservative)
Calle I Esq. 13, Vedado, Ciudad de la Habana, CP 10400, Cuba.
Tel: (537) 832 8953, Fax: (537) 33 3778
Email: beth_shalom@enet.cu, patronato_ort@enet.cu

Adela Dworin, president
 

Cuban Jewish Community official web site:
www.chcuba.org



Jose Levy Tur of Havana's Sephardic congregation.
Mindy Shapiro photo.


Centro Sefaradi (Conservative)

President Dra. Mayra Levy
Vice President Dra. Esther Jequin 
.

Calle 17 esquina Calle E,
Vedado, La Habana 10400
Tel: (53) (7) 832-6623
E-mail: sefaradi@enet.cu

Link to article on Centro Sefaradi

Also located here:
Mitrani Senior Day Care Center
 Holocaust Museum



Chevet Achim

(built in 1914,
oldest synagogue in Cuba)

Inquisidor entre Luz y Santa Clara
Habana Vieja
La Habana 10100
Phone: 53 (7) 8 32-6623


(This building, owned and maintained by Centro Sefardi, is closed and not used for ritual or community purposes. It may be viewed by appointment. Contact Jose Levy Tur - address and phone above.)


Paul Margolis photo


Mindy Shapiro photo


Adath Israel (Orthodox)

Picota 52 esquina Acosta,
Habana Vieja, La Habana 10100
Phone: 53 (7) 861-3495
 E-mail: adath@ip.etecsa.cu

Services at Adath Israel
Dan Heller provides a photo essay and historical material on Cuba's Jewish communities.
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Santiago de Cuba

Communidad Hebrea Hatikva (Conservative)

President Elias Vilat
Corona 273, e/Habana y Los Maceo,
Santiago de Cuba, 90100
Tel: (53) (22) 686180  or (53) (22)-624913,

elias.vila@infomed.sld.cu
hatikva@enet.cu

http://jewishcuba.org/hatikva
The first website for a congregation in Cuba


Services in Santiago - Fred Weiner photo


Reina looks at the future temple - the old one is occupied. Fred Weiner photo.


Camaguey

Comunidad Hebrea Teferit Israel
Andres Sanchez #365
e/ Capdevila Y Joaquin Aguero
Camaguey
(322) 84639 or (322) 291794

First new synagogue building since the revolution

http://www.jewishcuba.org/jjcam.html
Link to story by John Josephs

http://www.jewishcuba.org/camaguey.html
Link to story by David Abel




Santa Clara

Comunidad Tikun Olam
Santa Clara, Villa Clara

President David Tacher Romano
tacher_2013@yahoo.es
(011) 53 563156 mobile
(1)53-0422742804
Facebook-DAVID TACHER ROMANO

Link to larger photo
June Safran photo
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Children of the Cienfuegos community - June Safran Photo
Click here for another photo of Cienfuegos


Cienfuegos

Calle 39 #5001 e/ 50 y 52
phone:432-51-5995
Rebeca Langus, President   




Guantanamo
Rodolfo Mizrachi, President 
Paseo Este #2211
e/ 4 y 5


The Esquenazi-Mizrahi clan makes up the bulk of the Jewish community of Guantanamo. They have returned to Judaism in recent years. Paul Margolis photo


(Looking for a photo and an address)


Caibarien

Bertha Sara Levy, President
0423-3544
Julio Rodrigues Eli, vice-president
Avenida 15 #1626 e/ 16 y 18
Caibarien, Villa Clara 



Campechuela
Marti #4, Indep #72
Enrique and Leon Balia 
023-587-548
Link to larger photo
June Safran photo
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Sancti Spiritus

Jose and Elisa Barlia
Brigadier Reeve No. 2
Ave. de los Martires y
Isabel Ma de Valdiva
Sancti Spiritus
Tel : 2-5210

Gil Epshtein photo



Manzanillo


Elena Perez Behar, President
Villenda #348 e/ Leon Y Astillero
Manzanillo, Granma
(023) 53586, (023) 53532

Our thanks to Moises Asis, June Safran, and Gil Epshtein for the information on this page.