Cuba
Trump threatens tariffs on any nation supplying Cuba with oil
US President Donald Trump announces potential tariffs on countries providing oil to Cuba, ramping up pressure on the island’s leadership.
US seeks to end Cuba’s communist rule by year’s end - WSJ report
Iranian feminists understood the revolution better than Europe’s intellectuals - opinion
Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91
Roots and all
The Cabo Cuba Jazz band performs in the Hot Jazz series.
The Jews that time forgot
A Cuban-American, brought up as a Catholic, discovered her Jewish ancestry after she had converted. Today she works tirelessly to assist the descendants of Anusim.
Israel hopes to renew ties with Havana following US-Cuba thaw
No sitting Israeli prime minister has ever visited South America.
Cuban Jewish leader: Synagogues have no need for security
“We are the only country with a synagogue that has its doors constantly open, where there is no kind of security at all, no kind of guards,” says president of Cuban Jewish community.
A Jewish path in Zamora
A Cuban-American academic with Spanish roots reveals the story behind annual events in Spain’s northwest.
President Obama's Cuba - the memory of JFK
Israelis triumph in Cuban judo Grand Prix
After Shira Rishony claimed a silver medal in the under-48 kilogram event on Friday, Yarden Gerbi and Linda Bolder both went one better on Saturday.
US and Cuba getting closer to restoring commercial flights
The announcement comes as the countries approach the one-year anniversary of renewed diplomatic ties.
Remembering Holocaust eased Cuba imprisonment, US contractor Gross says
Gross, a longtime-supporter of Jewish causes, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for importing banned technology and trying to establish clandestine Internet service for Cuban Jews.
Ex-Guantanamo Bay warden to Israel: Force-feed hunger-striker immediately
Colonel Michael Bumgarner, who dealt with a mass hunger strike while he presided over the Guantanamo Bay detention center in 2006, says force-feeding is "a very simple ethical and moral issue."