Image Gallery
Page with a large gallery about events and landmarks of the Ohel Jacob Synagogue, Hehaver Community, Lisbon....
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August
Hehaver-Ohel Jacob | Part V
You could say that in Lisbon, this B’nei Anusim cluster is a set of people who, in addition of being few are also quite heterogeneous. On the one hand, there...
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21
August
Hehaver-Ohel Jacob History | Part IV
In 1999, a small group of B’nei Anusim, aged between twenty and fifty years old and rejected by the dominant Jewish community of town, approached the Ohel Jacob Synagogue at...
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21
August
Hehaver-Ohel Jacob History | Part III
Despite being Ashkenazi, the rabbi of the Shaareh Tikvah Synagogue, Mendel Diesendruck, drove the services in Sephardic rite because of the affinity of most Jews that attended. On the other...
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21
August
Hehaver-Ohel Jacob History | Part II
On 19 October 1739, the last victim of the Court of the Holy Office in Portugal was burnt - the Jew António José da Silva. In 1773, the rise of...
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21
August
Hehaver-Ohel Jacob History | Part I
The Ohel Jacob Synagogue arose in the 1930s, at a time when the Jewish community of Lisbon was mostly Sephardic and already established and structured for over a century in...
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21
August