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The surprising Jewish history of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
August 6, 2015 / Jacob Kaplan, Jewniverse via JTA

(Jewniverse via JTA) — Jews from Denmark first arrived on the white beaches of what is now St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands — a tiny speck off the coast of Puerto Rico — in the mid-17th century. These were descendants of a Jewish population that had fled Spain for… Read more »