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DOTAR

Remco LingsmaFebruary 14, 2023

Dotar Dotar is not an everyday word. In Spanish it means to gift, to endow, to give a dowry. In Sephardic history, it is a...

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The cradle of Judaism in the Americas stood in the Caribbean. Our congregation, which dates from 1651, and our synagogue, consecrated in 1732, are the oldest extant still today in the Caribbean.

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Dotar Dotar is not an everyday word. In Spanish it means to gift, to endow, to give a dowry. In Sephardic history, it is a...

DOTAR

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