Ariel Goldstein, the JCCSF Travel Programs Manager, is originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, and has also lived in Santiago, Chile and Jerusalem, Israel. He speaks Spanish, Hebrew, English and Portuguese, is crazy about soccer, loves his two cats, Pele and Koshka and has been involved in Jewish travel for 20 years.
Family November 7, 2014
Like many Jews of the Western Hemisphere, three of my grandparents were Polish. They didn’t have great memories of the place where they were born. But twenty years ago I made the choice to visit Poland. I never imagined that I would return five times more. ... Read more
World View June 3, 2014
Many visitors to Cuba wonder how it is that small Jewish communities formed in towns and cities around the nation. Where did they come from? How did they get there? Why did they stay? are common questions. Since Jews started to arrive in Cuba around the beginning of... Read more
World View February 26, 2014
There are around 4,000 Jews in India, many of them expats in the city of New Delhi. They built a small synagogue there in 1956, during the High Holy Days and sometimes on Friday nights it is hard to get a seat there. Yet Jewish life in India is just a... Read more