The Porto Jewish Community never was part of the love affairs of the powers established in Lisbon, quite the contrary.
The Porto Jewish Community never was part of the love affairs of the powers established in Lisbon, quite the contrary.
The initiative arises in response to the alarming increase in antisemitic acts in Catalonia after October 7, 2023.
What the Powers in Portugal attacked in 2022 was not some focus of evil within a Jewish community. It was the entire Jewish world, across all continents, and the State of Israel.
Oren Rozenblat highlighted the “eternal debt” of the Jewish people to the Portuguese diplomat who saved around 30,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
When, in May 2014, the Kadoorie synagogue hosted the presentation of the book "The Jews of Porto," few imagined that the city’s Jewish Community would be so strong.