The History of the Jewish people in St. Eustatius is one its many intriguing stories. Jewish merchants began to come to Statia as early as 1680 and had become part of this community by the early 1720's.

In the beginning the population was mostly of the Sephardim Sect but they were soon joined by Askenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. By 1730 these two groups were often in conflict and were a civil problem for the authorities.

In 1736, they requested the right to build a permanent Synagogue which they were granted. The Synagogue Honem Dalin or "She Who Is Charitable To The Poor" was finished in 1739.

She is the third oldest Caribbean Synagogue and its inhabitants would suffer many a hardship in its next 100 years until it finally sat in its current state as a majestic ruin.