Descended from Marranos, pirates and slave traders, the Jewish community of Jamaica has dwindled to about 200 members. While its leader, Ainsley Henriques, is trying to preserve Jamaican Jewry’s ...

After a week of attending a Jewish conference here, I’m starting to feel like everybody in Jamaica has some kind of connection to Judaism. Ainsley Henriques, the don of the local community, says ...

“When I was a boy, we had over a hundred people at our family seder,” says community leader and Jewish Jamaican genealogist 76-year-old Ainsley Henriques. “But the youngsters migrate and others die,” ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) - It’s Saturday morning at Sha’are Shalom, but there aren’t enough Jews gathered in the dim light of Jamaica’s only synagogue to conduct a formal prayer service. An American ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — It’s Saturday morning at Sha’are Shalom, but there aren’t enough Jews gathered in the dim light of Jamaica’s only synagogue to conduct a formal prayer service. An American ...