Alan Gross opens up about surviving Cuban prison, selfies
Jewish Journal
December 31, 2015
Since being imprisoned in Cuba six years ago, Alan Gross says his life has been “surreal.”
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Chicago mayor cuts short vacation after latest police shooting
Jewish Journal
December 28, 2015
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Monday he would cut his family vacation in Cuba short to address the fatal shooting of two more black residents by a city police department already under federal investigation over its use of deadly force.
Mobster Meyer Lansky’s heirs seeking compensation for Havana hotel casino
Jewish Journal
December 11, 2015
The descendants of Jewish gangster Meyer Lansky are seeking compensation for a hotel casino in Cuba he built in the 1950s.
Tales of Cuba, up close and personal
Jonathan Kirsch
December 3, 2015
Leila Segal is a woman of many gifts and passions.
Alan Gross: Memory of Holocaust survivor relatives got me through prison
Jewish Journal
November 27, 2015
Alan Gross, the American Jewish government contractor who spent five years in Cuban prison, said thinking of his family members who survived the Holocaust was one of three things that helped him get through the ordeal.
Turned away in 1939: The voyage of the MS St. Louis
Jared Sichel
June 4, 2015
Hans Fisher vividly remembers his excitement on May 27, 1939, the day the MS St. Louis and its 937 refugees, most of them German Jews, reached Havana’s harbor in Cuba two weeks after leaving Hamburg, Germany.
Obama tells Congress he plans to remove Cuba from terrorism list
Jewish Journal
April 14, 2015
President Barack Obama told Congress on Tuesday he intends to remove Cuba from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, clearing the way for restoring diplomatic relations and reopening embassies shut for more than half a century.\n
Supreme Court rejects Alan Gross’ appeal in suit vs. U.S.
Jewish Journal
April 6, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Alan Gross’ appeal in a $60 million lawsuit he filed against the U.S. government.
For Cuban Jews, improved ties to U.S. may not resolve central challenges
Jewish Journal
January 26, 2015
On a recent Friday night inside this city’s Beth Shalom synagogue, Aliet Ashkenazi, 25, stood draped in a blue-and-white prayer shawl leading prayers in a mix of Spanish and near-perfect Hebrew.
For a Jewish baseball purist, Cuba beckons
Jewish Journal
December 29, 2014
To the dismay of baseball fan Kit Krieger, future travels to Cuba will no longer include get-togethers with ex-Washington Senators pitcher Connie Marrero.
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