Jewish life
3 shuls listed. Last checked November 2026: 3 by official site.
Before your first visit, register with the community security office. Visitor registration · The eruv · Hotels near shul
Chabad house · Chabad house, Shabbat meals, rooms, women's mikveh · Bajo Boquete
Chabad house in the highland town of Boquete, Chiriquí, run by Rabbi Yakov and Hana Poliwoda. It hosts Shabbat prayers and meals, runs Morton's Bakehouse and takeout meat dinners, rents rooms upstairs and has a women's mikveh.
Chabad house · Chabad house, synagogue, Shabbat meals, restaurant · Bocas Town
Chabad house in Bocas Town on Isla Colón, run by Rabbi Moti and Sarit Cohen, serving the many Israeli and Jewish backpackers. It has daily and Shabbat services, Shabbat meals by registration, the Sababa meat restaurant and a temporary women's mikveh.
Chabad house · Chabad house, minyanim, Shabbat meals, visitor center · Paitilla
Chabad house in Paitilla run by Rabbi Mendi and Braha Karniel. It is the main address for traveling Jews: three minyanim daily year-round, large communal Friday-night and Shabbat-lunch meals by reservation, Shabbat take-out, a men's mikveh and a visitor-information service.
Every community building here, the Chabad house included, admits visitors only after they register with the community security office (DSI). Register well before you fly and carry your passport.
Minyan times change with the season and aren’t all published, so confirm the week’s times with the shul or with Chabad before Shabbat.
Yes. Panama’s Jewish community buildings share one security office, and visitors must be approved before their first visit. How visitor registration works.
Yes, over the main Jewish neighborhoods. No public weekly status notice exists, so ask at your shul or at Chabad on Friday. About the eruv.
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