Community – this word means so many different things. Community is its people, their happiness and sorrow, their everyday life and special events, their successes and failures. A community is like a living organism, where every member, like every organ and limb of a body, plays a uniquely important role. Just step into a synagogue during the time of its daily prayer, and you will feel the pulse of the communal Jewish life.

The Jewish community of Georgia is exceptional and unique, as is, probably, any other community in its own right. The history of Georgian Jews spans many centuries, and being intertwined with the multi-national history of Georgia, it has acquired certain distinctive features, making it one of the most colorful and idiosyncratic Jewish communities in the world. Though the Jews had always been an inseparable part of its host country, they have nonetheless never failed to maintain their distinction from their non Jewish neighbors, always remembering their roots, their past. They had understood that there lies the secret of Jewish survival – in maintaining the unbreakable chain of mesora, the Jewish tradition. This secret they have passed down to us, their descendants.