Educating the Cuban Jewish Community | Abel Hernández Eskenazi - World Jewish Congress

Educating the Cuban Jewish Community | Abel Hernández Eskenazi

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Educating the Cuban Jewish Community | Abel Hernández Eskenazi

Abel identified two main problems within his Cuban Jewish community. The first was the lack of educational tools to complement the distance education that the Sunday school had been providing during the Covid-19 pandemic period, and the second was the lack of educational tools to help the non-Jewish Cuban population learn more about the Cuban Jewish community. To help solve these problems, Abel developed a mobile application that could be used to educate members of the community about Judaism, Cuban Jewish history, and more. The app was published to the Android App store where it currently has over 400 downloads. The app is the first Jewish-related content on the platform, and he is continuing to situate the app in the platform’s search engine as the only result associated with the keyword “Jew.” Abel also created an account on Google Play to publish the app for rest of the world and positioned it as one of the few Jewish-related apps in Cuba.