Called Urban Diaspora: Reclaiming Space, the show is about the reclaiming of abandoned synagogues and Jewish community centers throughout America. Organized at the restored D.C. Jewish Community ...

In some places, abandoned synagogues have been transformed into mosques; in others, tombs of Jewish religious figures or other sacred spaces are still being maintained, or even revered ...

“I had expected that above the mosaic floor, there would be layers of debris from the period after the synagogue was abandoned and before it was rebuilt,” Chazan said. “We are all familiar ...

(JTA) — A Scottish-Jewish Liberal congregation with many members who are queer is seeking the reopening of an abandoned synagogue that was built in 1926 for Orthodox worshippers from Eastern Europe.

(JTA) — City planners in the British county of Cornwall have prevented the sale of an abandoned synagogue in the town of Penzance. The planners in the southern English county decided last week ...

The oldest synagogue in antiquity was on the Greek island of Delos - the island of god Apollo in the Cyclades - and attests the presence of a Jewish community ...

The Bene Israel Jewish community have rededicated an abandoned synagogue in Ambepur in Raigad district. The rededication ceremony last week was attended by nearly 175 members of the Jewish ...

The antisemitic genocide perpetrated by the Antonescu dictatorship led to mass emigration of surviving Romanian Jews to ...

One was the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. A synagogue in the Mahrers’ neighborhood. “Had they decided to go around the corner and go into the synagogue, I and others could have been among ...