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Communities in many cities, including in Spain and Italy, the two countries hit hardest by COVID-19 in Europe, are planning to hold at least some in-person programming on Jewish culture.
Soviet repression caused most Georgian Jews to flee, leaving behind a 2,500-year-old history whose memory is beginning to ...
A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a synagogue in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, on Saturday night, raising alarm in the Jewish community ...
Dating back to the 14th century, this is one of the oldest synagogues in Europe. Located in an area that was once the Jewish ghetto, the synagogue is also home to a small museum that houses a ...
A provocative interpretation of the art and architecture of a pre-modern wooden synagogue illuminates the social, historical and religious context of an Eastern-European Jewish community Thomas C.
MONTPELLIER, France --Attacks on Jewish communities continued across Europe as tension in the Mideast intensified. Molotov cocktails were thrown into a building next to a Jewish synagogue in the ...
Also referred to as the Great Synagogue, this place of worship is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second-largest in the world (only Temple Emanu-El in New York City is slightly bigger).
when figural synagogue art flourished – the period of the wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe. Wood was a common feature of synagogue architecture during the 16th and 17th centuries in the ...