Luis De Torres Synagogue is the only synagogue in the Bahamas. Named after Luis de Torres, a Jewish Marrano who sailed with Christopher Columbus to the new world, it is situated between two churches.
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“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)