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Providence's "Orpheus Ascending" by Gilbert Alfred Franklin. Photo — Shai Afsai

Wall with faded Hebrew writing near Tikvat Israel Synagogue in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai

Rabbi Gil Bashe (front left, with satchel) leading pilgrims on a walking tour of Uman, Ukraine. Photo — Shai Afsai

Onyeka Ibeh and her baby, Yishai, in Abuja. Photo — Shai Afsai

Tisha B'Av afternoon service at the High Synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic. Photo — Shai Afsai

Reverend David Kale and his sister, Avril Kale, at their home in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photo — Shai Afsai

Pilgrims pray and recite psalms inside the tomb of Rebbe Nachman in Uman. Photo — Shai Afsai

The Jerusalem Synagogue in Prague. Photo — Shai Afsai

Michael Rubenfeld and Adam Schorin discuss their "Lucky Jew" portraits with Polish passersby at Kraków's Plac Nowy. Photo — Shai Afsai

Irish writer Gerry Mc Donnell in Dublin. Photo — Shai Afsai

Emanuel ben David at prayer by an open window at Tikvat Israel Synagogue in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai

Haḥnasat Sefer Torah celebration welcoming a Torah scroll to 770 Eastern Parkway (Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters). Photo — Shai Afsai

Betsalel Laurent Elouna and Professor William F. S. Miles during a visit to Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. Photo — Shai Afsai

Efraim Karol Sidon, Chief Rabbi of the Czech Republic, after prayers at Prague's High Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai

Dominika Kolodziej and Polish novelist Joanna Chojnacka at the Hevre restaurant in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai

Rabbi Eliahu Klein at his home in Providence, Rhode Island. Photo — Shai Afsai

"I always carried my little Book with me": Benjamin Franklin and his Method for Examination. Digital collage — Shai Afsai

An old stone wall in a Rhode Island forest. Photo — Shai Afsai

Izuchukwu Onuchukwu standing beside the letters of the Hebrew alphabet on the outskirts of Abuja. Photo — Shai Afsai

Emil Kroiter and The Trance-Moldavian Express performing at the Tempel Synagogue in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai

Gilbert Alfred Franklin's outdoor Providence, Rhode Island, sculpture "Orpheus Ascending." Photo — Shai Afsai

Gravestone of the 16th-century poet and musar author Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner, in Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery. Photo — Shai Afsai

Members of the Piyut Ensemble at the Tempel Synagogue in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai

Figurines of Jews on display at an art shop in Prague. Photo — Shai Afsai

Reverend David Kale at his Belfast home. Photo — Shai Afsai

Governor Reed B. Oliver, Honorary Consul of the State of Israel in the Federated States of Micronesia. Photo — Shai Afsai

Door leading to the sanctuary of Prague's Spanish Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai

Avraham Allen and his daughter at their home in Rehovot, Israel. Photo — Shai Afsai

Interior of Beth Israel Synagogue of Brașov, Romania. Photo — Shai Afsai

Mariusz Matera and Czeslaw Uszyński at Kraków's Tempel Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai

At his home in Karmiel in northern Israel, Qes Efraim Zion-Lawi examines a Jewish book from Ethiopia that his parents concealed while in Sudan. Photo — Shai Afsai

Sefi Zisling playing trumpet at the Tempel Synagogue in Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai

Surangel Whipps Jr., President of the Republic of Palau (left), and Alan Seid, Honorary Consul of the State of Israel in the Republic of Palau (right). Photo — Shai Afsai

Dinah Anugwa, Sarah Ezenwa, and Hadassah Agbai outside Gihon Synagogue in Abuja. Photo — Shai Afsai

The Spanish Synagogue in Prague. Photo — Shai Afsai

Paul Schneller — Swiss photographer, author, and veterinarian specializing in exotic animals — during a visit to Kraków. Photo — Shai Afsai

Doors of Beth Israel Synagogue of Brașov, Romania. Photo — Shai Afsai

Maestro Elli Jaffe conducting Sinfonietta Cracovia at Krakow's Tempel Synagogue. Photo — Shai Afsai

Harim Obidike ceremoniously breaks a kola nut, sacred symbol of hospitality and cooperation, at the start of an Igbo Jews’ community meeting in Abuja, Nigeria. Photo — Shai Afsai

Yagil Tsaidi (left) and Binyamin Beiser (right) at Yeshivat Mevaseret Zion in Israel. Photo — Shai Afsai

Nature writer Eran Hornick at Douglas State Forest. Photo — Shai Afsai

Typewriter at Howard Finster's Paradise Garden in Summerville, Georgia. Photo — Shai Afsai

Redwood Lodge's founders. Digital collage — Shai Afsai

Discontinued prizes at Las Vegas's GameWorks. Photo — Shai Afsai

Ruben Sanchez’s Las Vegas mural of Hunter S. Thompson. Photo — Shai Afsai

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