Shabbat Services
The name of the seventh day of the week is derived from the Hebrew - Shabbat - which simply means "cessation of work". The shabbat is not just a rest...
Read MoreThe name of the seventh day of the week is derived from the Hebrew - Shabbat - which simply means "cessation of work". The shabbat is not just a rest...
Read MorePage with a large gallery about events and landmarks of the Ohel Jacob Synagogue, Hehaver Community, Lisbon....
Read MoreYou 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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreDespite 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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