A Jewish Journey Through South America

A Jewish Journey Through South America

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At the Beth Torah Benny Rok temple in North Miami Beach, Argentine-born rabbi Mario Rojzman leads a monthly Spanish-language biblical study group called Café Con Torah. With a crowd of mixed Latino Jews who hail from all over —Bolivia, Cuba, Argentina— the study group is a good cross-section of the Latino Jews living in the United States. One person in the crowd is Verónica Zaragovia, whose Colombian family has been in south Florida for a few decades, but whose family’s roots are in the Jewish shtetls of Eastern Europe. Across oceans, continents, languages and major historic events, Verónica’s family journey showcases just how a Jewish Latino identity is formed, and how history is central to it all.

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