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Today, the Centro Israelita is the main Jewish community institution in Costa Rica, responsible for maintaining and promoting religious activity, mutual aid, charity, formal and informal Jewish education, and care for the elderly, among others.
Today, Costa Rica's Jewish population is approximately 2,500, though thousands of Israeli tourists visit the country each year. The first Jewish settlers in Costa Rica were Sephardim from Curacao, Jamaica, Panama and the Caribbean who arrived in the 19th century.
4 Ιαν 2012 · Despite being accepting to Jews, Costa Rica is still a Christian dominated land, and so it’s unlikely you’ll come across a kosher restaurant or a mikva. The Jewish community has responded...
While one wave of Sephardic Jews lived in Costa Rica as Marranos in the 16th and 17th centuries and another as merchants in the 19th, the present Jewish community dates from before World War II and is primarily of Eastern European origin, nearly half from two villages in Poland.
24 Μαρ 2016 · After World War II, Polish Holocaust survivors came to reunite with their relatives who had come earlier. (Almost the entire modern Costa Rican Jewish community has originated from one Polish...
12 Δεκ 2006 · A new Jewish community was founded in Costa Rica in the early 1930’s (although some Jews had arrived following World War I) by Ashkenazi Jews fleeing Hitler’s Europe. In fact, most Jewish Costa Ricans today trace their history to a single Polish village, Zelechow.
Around the Jewish World After Years of Improvisation, Jews in Costa Rica Are Now Turning Kosher. The eating habits of Costa Rica’s estimated 2,500 Orthodox Jews are changing. Jews...
