The beach of Sosua stretches for a full mile, and all along the white dunes runs a wall of vendors' stalls. The hawkers approached with open arms; they embraced me around the shoulders and smiled like ...

SOSUA, Dominican Republic (JTA) — Sitting inside a small wood-frame synagogue just around the corner from Playa Alicia, where tourists sip rum punch while watching catamarans glide by, Joe Benjamin ...

SOSUA, Dominican Republic-- A U.S. citizen who worked for more than a decade as a reporter for The New York Times was found dead at her home in a northern beach town of the Dominican Republic, ...

SOSUA, Dominican Republic – With its bamboo roof and breezy open air design, Baily’s Cafe near the far end of Dr. Joseph Rosen Street is the perfect place to take refuge from the scorching afternoon ...

Joe Benjamin, who grew up a refugee in “tropical Zion,” is pushing the Caribbean country’s government to fund the project, which he’s pitching as a tourist draw. SOSUA, Dominican Republic (JTA) — ...

If Sosúa, an idyllic beach town on the Dominican Republic’s north coast, looks like paradise to us, one can only imagine how pleasant a sight it was for European Jewish refugees in the early 1940s.

The night before Kristallnacht – the infamous date in November 1938 when synagogues burned across Germany and the Nazis arrested tens of thousands of Jews – my father’s family escaped from Berlin and ...