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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 597

Cuba

People at the 40th Havana Biennale in Havana, Cuba, February 2025 (Courtesy Belu-Simion Fainaru)
February 4, 2025, 1:32 am
Haifa artists exhibit in Cuba, despite its non-recognition of Israel
Veteran artists Belu-Simion Fainaru and Avital Bar-Shay participate in Havana Biennale
By Jessica Steinberg
Genie Milgrom holding a plate of Chuletas. (Courtesy of Genie Milgrom)
December 29, 2024, 1:37 am
Cookbook author proves it’s possible to make delicious — and kosher — Cuban cuisine
New recipe compilation ‘Salsa!’ is the result of decades of trial and error to adapt beloved Cuban dishes so that they retain their layered flavor — minus the pork and shellfish
By Renee Ghert-Zand
(L-R) Cuba's Prime Minister Manuel Marrero, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, and his wife Lis Cuesta take part in a march in support of the Palestinian people and against Israel's war with Hamas in Havana, Cuba on November 23, 2023. (Yamil Lage/AFP)
November 24, 2023, 8:51 am
Cuban president leads pro-Palestinian march in front of US embassy in Havana
Some 100,000 people said to participate in anti-Israel rally, including Palestinian medical students studying in Latin American nation
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Juan Bradman, center, with his brother Saloman and their father Julio, at their family’s shoe store in Matanzas, Cuba, 1949. (Courtesy Miriam Bradman Abrahams via JTA)
September 27, 2023, 6:47 pm
Juan Bradman, Cuban-Jewish exile whose life inspired a novel, dies at 90
Son of refugees was a circuit judge in rural Cuba when he fled Castro’s revolution for the US to start a new life as a social worker, then was a Holocaust and immigration educator
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Cuban-born, US-based writer and art conservator Rosa Lowinger is the author of 'Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile and Repair.' (Scarlett Freund via JTA)
September 10, 2023, 4:07 am
A new memoir tries to mend the pieces of the author’s broken Cuban-Jewish family
In ‘Dwell Time,’ Rosa Lowinger draws on her background as a conservator to examine the cracks and flaws in her upbringing as the child of exiles – and how they made her stronger
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
A classic American car drives past utility poles tilted by Hurricane Ian in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
September 28, 2022, 8:00 am
Hurricane Ian wipes out power in Cuba, takes aim at Florida
No immediate reports of deaths after island takes ‘catastrophic’ battering; US authorities urges residents to obey evacuation orders as weather system expected to gain strength
By Rigoberto DIAZ
Storm clouds are seen as Hurricane Ian approaches in St. Petersburg, Florida, on September 26, 2022. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP)
September 27, 2022, 4:42 pm
Hurricane Ian hits Cuba, heads for Florida as Category 3 storm
Storm prompts mass evacuations and fears of widespread destruction along its path
By Leticia PINEDA
The Bolton family (left to right): Carol, Matilde, John, Judy, and Harold, circa 1966. (courtesy, Judy Bolton-Fasman)
October 10, 2021, 2:02 am
Author boldly goes against her dead father’s wishes to uncover his true identity
In her new memoir, Judy Bolton-Fasman investigates lifelong questions on the strange union between her assimilated American dad and her much-younger mom, a volatile Cuban refugee
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Pedro Montano holds his daughter Roxana Montano, 3, while she is being vaccinated against COVID-19 with Cuban vaccine Soberana Plus, on August 24, 2021 at Juan Manuel Marquez hospital in Havana, as part of a vaccine study in children and adolescents. (ADALBERTO ROQUE / AFP)
September 7, 2021, 1:11 am
In world first, Cuba starts COVID-19 shots for toddlers
Nation is using home-grown vaccines not recognized by the World Health Organization
By AFP
Protesters shut down part of the Palmetto Expressway as they show their support for anti-government protesters in Cuba, on July 13, 2021, in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
July 14, 2021, 12:02 pm
Iran denounces US ‘interference’ as Cuba rocked by rare protests
Iranian foreign ministry claims America is mainly to blame for the communist-ruled island’s woes, after deadly demonstrations erupt amid deep economic crisis
By AFP
Ruth Behar's grandmother Esther (third from left in front row, in white dress) with her family in Agramonte, Cuba, c. 1936. (Courtesy)
July 1, 2021, 3:00 am
Based on grandmother’s heroic tale, author shows 1930s Cuba as haven for Jews
Ruth Behar mines family lore for ‘Letters From Cuba,’ a book for readers ages 8-12 about a pre-teen Polish-Jewish girl’s solo journey to life in remote sugar plantation town
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Raul Castro, first secretary of the Communist Party and former president, waves to members at the VIII Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba's opening session, as Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, right, applauds at the Convention Palace, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 16, 2021. (Ariel Ley Royero/ACN via AP)
April 17, 2021, 2:42 pm
Era ends as Raul Castro steps down as Cuba’s Communist Party chief
Departure leaves the island without a Castro guiding affairs for first time in more than six decades, handing control of the party to a younger generation
By Andrea Rodrguez
Staff stand within the United States Embassy facility in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The United States issued an ominous warning to Americans on Friday to stay away from Cuba and ordered home more than half the U.S. diplomatic corps, acknowledging neither the Cubans nor America’s FBI can figure out who or what is responsible for months of mysterious health ailments. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)
December 6, 2020, 12:03 pm
Microwave energy likely made US diplomats sick in Cuba, China — report
State Department-commissioned study says ‘directed, pulsed radio frequency energy’ the most plausible cause of mysterious illness among American personnel in 2016-2018
By AP
Alan Gross, freed from a Cuban prison earlier in the day, waves after concluding his remarks with his wife, Judy, at a news conference in Washington shortly after arriving in the United States, December 17, 2014. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
March 5, 2020, 2:18 am
Alan Gross says Bernie Sanders praised Cuba while visiting him in prison
‘I don’t know what’s so wrong with this country,’ former hostage quotes presidential hopeful as having told him
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: Wilbert Wilson Rivero, a Jewish bartender who works at Havana’s Hotel Raquel, proudly displays a bottle of Havana Club rum. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)
February 18, 2020, 4:43 am
After rabbis and resources, Jewish food tops list of things Cuban Jews lack
From kosher meat to bagels with a hole, shortages on the island make it near impossible for the aging community to access what their foreign coreligionists take for granted
By Stephen Silver
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