Travelertoo2 Posted January 16, 2018 #1 Share Posted January 16, 2018 My husbandand I will be in Curacao on Sunday on February 25th 2018. We want to see the Synagogue in Curacao. However they are closed but if they haveenough requests they will open the Synagogue. If any one is interested please contact the Synagogue Avery Tracht <rabbi@snoa.com We will be on the princess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyboy Posted January 16, 2018 #2 Share Posted January 16, 2018 You may want to post this on your Roll Call to connect with your fellow passengers. Sent from my iPhone using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadieN Posted January 16, 2018 #3 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Also, find out which other ships will be in port. Ask on their roll calls on here and that site that cannot be named. Sent from my iPhone using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted January 16, 2018 #4 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I too would post this on the roll call. It is a very unique Synagogue with its history. The floor is sand. I hope you get to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarea Posted January 16, 2018 #5 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I would post on the Roll Call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare gotta cruise again Posted January 16, 2018 #6 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I agree with Keith1010. It is very interesting and one of the highlights of our visit to Curacao a couple of weeks ago. We are not Jewish and were totally enthralled by the information as were a Jewish couple, also from the ship, that we with walked around the synagogue and museum. I would also suggest checking and posting on the forum for Caribbean ports as you may catch someone looking there for info that doesn't pay much attention to Roll Calls. I hope you are able to visit the synagogue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micahs Grandad Posted January 16, 2018 #7 Share Posted January 16, 2018 We had the opportunity to see it a few years ago and a very worthwhile visit it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare dickinson Posted January 16, 2018 #8 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Keith1010- Thanks for the photos! We have been to Curacao 2x and both times were on the weekend when it was closed for visitors. Maybe one day we will get to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted January 16, 2018 #9 Share Posted January 16, 2018 dickinson, you are very welcome. The Synagogue has special meaning to me. I was very fortunate to have taken my first cruise when I was 12 years young when cruising was not robust as it is today and my parents took us there. Forty five years later I returned there and this time with my wife. We also returned the following year. Cruising has allowed us to visit some of the oldest Synagogues in North American including this one, the one in Barbados and the one in Charleston, South Carolina along with some others around the world along with many Churches. This is actually my bar mitzvah Tallit and Bag which my parent's purchased for me for at this Synagogue for my bar mitzvah. As part of our visit my wife and I visited the Beth Haim Cemetery which is the oldest Jewish Cemetery still in use in the Western Hemisphere with tombstones dating back to 1659 Often when people think of the Caribbean they don't think about its history. My wife is not of the Jewish Faith. We both like history. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare geoherb Posted January 16, 2018 #10 Share Posted January 16, 2018 The synagogue received enough interest to open on Sunday for our cruise last month on the Royal. Folks on our roll call thread reported that there was also a Jewish Heritage Tour available privately. Here's the info on that: "If you would like a more elaborate private Jewish Heritage Tour of the island (where more sight of Jewish interest are visited), we recommend you contact Mrs. Gigi Scheper at the following e-mail address:giannascheper3@gmail.com." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare dickinson Posted January 16, 2018 #11 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Keith - Thank you for the additional pictures. That tallit and bag I'm sure is very special to you. I have been to Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI and also the Great Synagogue in Rome. Hopefully if I get to Curaco again it won't be on a weekend. I will be in Barbados next year so will have to look that one up. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted January 16, 2018 #12 Share Posted January 16, 2018 dickinson, you are very welcome. We have also been to Touro Synagogue but not to the Great Synagogue in Rome and I am adding that to our list to visit the next time we are in Rome. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1025cruise Posted January 16, 2018 #13 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I'm sad I didn't get to the synagogue last time I was in Curacao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare dickinson Posted January 16, 2018 #14 Share Posted January 16, 2018 dickinson, you are very welcome. We have also been to Touro Synagogue but not to the Great Synagogue in Rome and I am adding that to our list to visit the next time we are in Rome. Keith The Rome synagogue is not as old (built 1901-1903) but is beautiful. There is a nice museum there too. If we had come about 30 minutes earlier we could have gone on a tour of the Jewish ghetto. Wish I had known. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm9912 Posted January 16, 2018 #15 Share Posted January 16, 2018 We visited on 12/18/12 and we were lucky it was open. Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micahs Grandad Posted January 16, 2018 #16 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Keith - Thank you for the additional pictures. That tallit and bag I'm sure is very special to you. I have been to Touro Synagogue in Newport, RI and also the Great Synagogue in Rome. Hopefully if I get to Curaco again it won't be on a weekend. I will be in Barbados next year so will have to look that one up. Thanks again. Going to Rome for the first time later this year and hope we can see the Great Synagogue of Rome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike45LC Posted January 16, 2018 #17 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I was fortunate to have attended Sabbath services at this synagogue. The synagogue is beautiful, services were good, and getting to know the congregants (and helping them form their minyan) as a fellow worshipper and not just as a tourist was a highlight of the trip. I hope you can generate enough interest for a tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Keith1010 Posted January 16, 2018 #18 Share Posted January 16, 2018 I was fortunate to have attended Sabbath services at this synagogue. The synagogue is beautiful, services were good, and getting to know the congregants (and helping them form their minyan) as a fellow worshipper and not just as a tourist was a highlight of the trip. I hope you can generate enough interest for a tour. That is very special and a wonderful way to experience the synagogue. Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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