In the start of 2020, Rabbi Shmulik & Chaya Berkowitz together with their son Sholom, established the first Jewish center in Turks & Caicos, to service the spiritual and physical needs of the local Jewish community, as well as the visitors to the island. Our goal is to strengthen Jewish awareness and pride for the Jewish residents, and the thousands of visitors to Turks & Caicos, regardless of background or affiliation.
True peace is not a forced truce, not a homogenization of differences, not a common ground that abandons our home territories.
True peace is the oneness that sprouts from diversity, the beauty that emerges from a panorama of colors, strokes and textures, from the harmony of many instruments each playing a unique part, not one overlapping the other’s domain by even the breadth of a hair.
Those who attempt to blur those borders, whatever be their motives—they are unwittingly destroying the world.
Beginning with the crucial border between man and woman. For this is...
Turkey has an ancient, uninterrupted Jewish presence spanning millennia, with communities that once ranked among the largest and most influential in all of Jewish history.