Spring Event – Sunday May 19th 2024

  • 12 noon Eastern / 10:00 Mountain / 9:00 a.m. Pacific

Logo for the Kanter Lecture Series by the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, featuring a decorative geometric pattern and text referencing the Lawrence & Kathy Kanter Philanthropic Fund of the JCF of NE Florida.The Jewish History of Madeira and the Azores by world traveler and Jewish Historian Irene Shaland

Irene will also discuss the unsolved mystery of the ancient Sephardic Torah with an Ashkenazi cover. First given by a local man to an American Jewish officer serving on the US Army base on Terceira Island of the Azores, the Torah reappeared forty years later on Sao Miguel Island inside a sea cave.
We will also be treated to a visual tour of Madeira and Azores as she delves deeper into the archipelagos’ hidden Jewish history.

Registration begins April 19th.

Minimum donation $5.00

A smiling older couple poses for a selfie by the ocean, with inset images of a historic clock tower in a town square and a decorative synagogue interior, overlaid on a coastal town aerial view.