I thought I had lost these pictures :-o! when I accidentally erased my SD card the next to last day of my Western Caribbean cruise on the Allure of the Seas the last week of August, 2011. Fortunately, a savvy tech at Wolf's Camera in Dadeland salvaged them for me. I'd been especially keen on visiting the Hebrew Congregation synagogue in St. Thomas, the second oldest existing congregation in the Western Hemisphere. The sand on the floor especially fascinated me: why was it there? Because, for the Sephardim, it signified their having had to muffle the sounds of services--such as, tonight's Rosh Hashanah--during the Inquisition...even after they'd become
Conversos. Perhaps it also signifies the Exodus into the desert?
Shana Tova!
Remembering Mami, Grandpa Zoltan, Grandma Ilonka, and the entire Raab and Mezey families--
