Seth Wikas
By Seth Wikas
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Fast Forward Meet the 2 Jews of Guyana, a South American nation with a tradition of religious tolerance
Guyana had a Jewish president in the 1990s. But it has never had a Jewish community
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Culture Blowing the Shofar in Cairo
‘Have you ever prepared a Jewish body for burial?” It was Saturday morning, April 13, 2013. The person on the line had called me hours earlier to let me know that Carmen Weinstein, leader of Cairo’s Jewish community, had died. I had arrived in Cairo nearly eight months earlier to work at the U.S. Embassy,…
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