The figure, says Rabbi Asher Federman, founder and rabbi of Chabad of the Virgin Islands, is estimated at 600 full-time residents and an additional 2,000 Jews who reside there during the winter …Rabbis Starr and Federman get along well and support each other’s endeavors. They realize that “with so many

[Jews] unaffiliated, there was so much more to do,” says Federman, who works as a team with his wife, Henya, reaching out to both the residents and the multitude of tourists who flock to the island each year, often descending from cruise ships.

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