We posted about the recent dedication of the synagogue in Ponta Delgada, in the Azores Islands, after a full restoration.
The synagogue complex includes a new little museum on the history of Jews in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago of nine islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Journalist Michael Holtzmann writes in the Fall River Patriot Ledger that the so-called “Memorial Wing” of the complex includes “documents, photos and religious artifacts and Jewish-Azorean history dating for more than a century, that had been strewn about and abandoned in boxes.” They include “photos of the last rabbi, Samuel Albo, who died in 1917, family celebrations with old bottles of Kosher wine for Passover, small scrolls of Esther, likely used for the Purim holiday, letters from relatives around the world offering safe harbor, a tall, wooden chair for circumcision of babies, transferred from the restored sanctuary to the museum.”
Read our previous post about the synagogue rededication