From CNN.com:

Some spiritually minded cruise ship visitors bypass the maze of tourist shops in Charlotte Amalie's downtown to see the mahogany furnishings, chandeliers and Torah scrolls of the St. Thomas Synagogue, which has a core congregation of some 110 families.

"This is such a classic place to come," said Mel Grossman, a cruise ship passenger from Toronto, Ontario, who has visited both the St. Thomas and Curacao synagogues. "I don't care if I never go to a jewelry store. I come to the synagogue."


According to the news story, both the St Thomas and Curacao synagogues have sand floors " remembrance of the religious persecution that expelled their community's ancestors from Europe ... The sand muffled the sound of the banned Jewish prayer"

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