# @joiceglobal on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DcGpNV_IFil
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69164239-joiceglobal-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-16T14:10:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Joice (@joiceglobal) — https://gondola.cc/joiceglobal

## Caption

Everyone comes to Curaçao 🇨🇼 for the beaches.
I came for the floor.😉 via jonahplatt

Mikvé Israel-Emanuel — the oldest synagogue in continuous use in the Americas. Consecrated 1732. Four pillars hold it up, each one named for a matriarch.💪

And the floor is sand, so our ancestors in Spain and Portugal could pray without anyone hearing their footsteps.🤫

Their gravestones are carved in Portuguese. Their weddings smash the bottle on a silver plate — a tradition that exists nowhere else on earth.✨

375 years later, the doors are still open. Shabbat is still sung. And the guest book says the same three words on every page…

Am Yisrael Chai. ✡️

#jewishpeople #jewishlife #jewishstories

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