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Andorra’s tiny Jewish community reels after local carnival features mock execution of Israeli effigy

February 17, 2026February 17, 2026Jesse Orine

An annual festival in Andorra drew condemnation from the country’s small Jewish community after an effigy bearing the Israeli flag was staged in a mock trial and then hung and shot. The incident was part of the traditional Catalan festival Carnestoltes, which occurs yearly before Lent, the 40-day period that precedes Easter. At Monday’s festival […]

Andorra, where non-Catholic houses of worship are illegal, gets its first full-time rabbi

December 2, 2024December 2, 2024Jesse Orine

The last few years have brought a string of Jewish milestones for Andorra, a tiny, landlocked microstate in the Pyrenees where non-Catholic houses of worship are prohibited by law. Last year, a Jewish lawmaker joined the legislature for the first time. And this summer, the lawmaker’s brother told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the local […]