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

Tiburcio says that word of his house started to get around his hometown of Bonao, and visitors would stop by at all hours of the day – even when the family was having lunch – because they thought it ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The rhythms of merengue and bachata come from the Dominican Republic, but salsa also plays a major musical influence in the Caribbean country. Willy Rodriguez is the co-founder of ...

Introduction : "We declare that we are Indians" : Dominican identity displays and discourses in travel writing, museums, beauty shops, and bodies -- "It is said that Haiti is getting blacker and ...