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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

Havana

Pictured left to right: Nancy Aucone, Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, and granddaughter Chloe Schachter at the Wedding Salon of Manhasset. (Courtesy Ilana Schachter via JTA)
April 15, 2023, 9:15 am
Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, mogul of ‘Say Yes to the Dress’ bridal empire, dies at 99
Holocaust survivor born in Vienna; family fled to Havana; foresight of ‘Miss Hedda’ to shift family business from fur to weddings transformed it into multi-million dollar entity
By Jackie Hajdenberg
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
The Star of David decorates a tomb eroded by moss at the Jewish cemetery in Guanabacoa in eastern Havana, Cuba, June 7, 2019. (Ramon Espinosa/AP)
June 25, 2019, 1:28 pm
A celebrating Havana renovates Cuba’s oldest Jewish cemetery
Burial ground opened in 1910 contains some 1,100 graves; it is being restored as part of events marking 500 years since the city’s establishment
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
A Chinese flag flies at a construction site in Beijing's central business district on October 31, 2017. (AFP Photo/Greg Baker)
June 9, 2018, 11:40 am
US fears of ‘mystery weapon’ revived by new China diplomat cases
Staff who fell ill after hearing strange sounds are being examined by doctors at a consulate in the city of Guangzhou, with at least one diagnosed with brain trauma
By Andrew MARSZAL
Emergency and rescue personnel are pictured while working at the site of the accident, after a Cubana de Aviacion aircraft crashed after taking off from Havana's Jose Marti airport on May 18, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / STR)
May 19, 2018, 6:27 am
More than 100 killed in Cuba airliner crash
Three women pulled from wreckage in critical condition; 40-year-old Boeing 737 hit ground shortly after takeoff
By Alexandre GROSBOIS
Picture taken at the scene of the accident after a Cubana de Aviacion aircraft crashed after taking off from Havana's Jose Marti airport on May 18, 2018. (AFP/Adalberto Roque)
May 18, 2018, 9:23 pm
Dozens feared dead as airliner with 104 on board crashes on takeoff from Havana
Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel says there are a ‘high number’ of casualties after visiting the scene of the Boeing 737 accident
By AFP
Adela Dworin with Fidel Castro in Havana, in August 2010. Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is at right. (Cubadebate state media)
February 19, 2018, 6:23 pm
When our woman in Havana asked Fidel Castro to the synagogue Hanukkah party
Adela Dworin doesn’t have to live in Cuba. Her friends left for Miami long ago. So why does she stay, running and schnorring for the Jewish community? Here’s her story, and Cuba’s
By David Horovitz
File photo taken on June 1, 2016 of Cuban Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. (AFP/Adalberto Roque)
February 2, 2018, 7:21 pm
Fidel Castro’s eldest son commits suicide
A scientist who studied physics in the former Soviet Union, Fidel Jr. helped usher in nuclear power in Cuba; he reportedly suffered from ‘deep depression’
By AFP
The Cuban interior ministry building with the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the Cuban flag fluttering at half mast at Havana's Revolution square, during Fidel Castro's memorial, on November 28, 2016 in Havana. (AFP Photo/Adalberto Roque)
October 17, 2017, 11:49 am
Israeli business delegation heading to Cuba, with tacit Jerusalem consent
In first, Israel-Latin American Chamber of Commerce is taking companies to Havana in December, to partner directly with the regime and government-owned firms
By Raphael Ahren
US President Donald Trump signs policy changes he is making toward Cuba at the Manuel Artime Theater in the Little Havana neighborhood on June 16, 2017 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
June 17, 2017, 8:16 am
Trump thrusts US, Cuba back toward hostile relations
President denounces communist regime in Havana, vows to overhaul Obama’s ‘one-sided deal’
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Michael Weissenstein and Josh Lederman
Klezmer musician Frank London. (Anya Roz)
March 1, 2017, 12:29 am
Klezmatics’ Frank London brings new Yiddish-Spanish opera to Cuba
Based on an epic poem by a Havana Jewish refugee inspired by the struggle against Spanish colonialists, trumpeter says his new composition has universal themes
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Frank London speaks about 'Hatuey: Memory of Fire' to the Yiddish Book Center (screen capture: YouTube)
February 24, 2017, 10:16 pm
Yiddish-Cuban opera to premiere in Havana
‘Hatuey: Memory of Fire,’ based on 1931 poem about indigenous chief who resisted the Spanish, set to open in Cuba on March 3
By JTA
Cubans pay homage to the late leader Fidel Castro during the last ceremony before his burial in Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of his revolution, on December 3, 2016. (AFP/Pedro Pardo)
December 4, 2016, 6:40 am
Cuba bans monuments named after Fidel Castro
President says his brother ‘rejected any manifestation of cult of personality,’ did not want his name or likeness used for tributes
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and Michael Weissenstein
The Cuban interior ministry building with the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the Cuban flag fluttering at half mast at Havana's Revolution square, during Fidel Castro's memorial, on November 28, 2016 in Havana. (AFP Photo/Adalberto Roque)
November 28, 2016, 8:34 pm
Throngs pay homage to Cuba’s Fidel Castro
Thousands of Cubans pay final respects to deceased leader at Revolution Square, site of some of his most famous speeches
By Laurent THOMET
Fidel Castro, left, raises the hand of his brother, Cuban President Raul Castro, center, as they sing the anthem of international socialism during the 6th Communist Party Congress in Havana, Cuba on April 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)
November 26, 2016, 9:58 am
Castro clan torn by dysfunction and disagreements
While brother Raul was Fidel Castro’s closest confidant and successor, his estranged sister Juana, exiled in south Florida, called him a ‘monster’
By ANITA SNOW
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