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A sailor remembers High Holidays in 1946 in Guantanamo, Cuba

J.’s cover story a few months ago about the Jews of Guantanamo, Cuba made me recall my own brief encounter with the Jewish community of Guantanamo City in 1946. I was a hospital corpsman (medic) stationed at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay. It must have been September, nearly time for Rosh Hashanah and Yom […]