Jewish communities welcome new relations with Cuba.

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Cuban-Jews-want-close-ties-with-US-brethren-385158

Dina Siegel Vann, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs, said Gross’s release and the opening of ties with Cuba is a boon for Jews: In addition to the benefits accrued to all Cubans from open relations, Cuban Jews “will have stronger ties to Jewish organizations, they will be much more in the open,” she said.

Improved US-Cuba relations would have a rollover effect, removing obstacles to US ties with other Latin American countries – and this in turn would remove tensions that have affected Jewish communities, Vann said.

There are between 5,500 and 6,000 Cuban Jews within the Florida Jewish community, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Executive Director Jacob Solomon told the Post.

“They are very pleased about Alan Gross’s release. They think it’s been an extraordinary affront to decency that he has been incarcerated for so long and they are universally happy that he was released,” Solomon said.