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The Passover seder is over, but we are still eating matzo… Here are a few images of matzo making equipment — machines and ovens — in several historic synagogues. We have posted some of ...
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Matzo! Matzo! Matzo! …as Pesach continues
The Passover seder is over, but we are still eating matzo… Here are a few images of matzo making equipment — machines and ovens — in several historic synagogues. We
Hungary: Three-day festival this weekend closes exhibition celebrating the 150th birthday of noted Hungarian Jewish architect Béla Lajta
If you are in Budapest, don’t miss the closing days of an exhibition that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Jewish architect Béla Lajta. The exhibit,
Passover greetings from JHE — with historic (and modern) Haggadot
Heartfelt greetings from JHE for a meaningful Pesach! The Seder meal, with its symbolic foods arranged on a special plate, is guided by the Haggadah, whose wealth of ancient texts
JHE in italiano: sommario settimanale
Ecco il sommario in italiano delle nostre notizie dal mondo dei beni culturali ebraici Polonia: in occasione dell’81º anniversario dell’inizio dell’insurrezione del Ghetto di Varsavia, proponiamo monumenti che la
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Long(er) Reads Cemeteries: New Monuments Mark Jewish Cemeteries Across Ukraine — Even in Wartime
There are more than 1,300 Jewish cemeteries in Ukraine, most unprotected, desecrated, built over, or bare plots whose matzevot were uprooted by the Nazis or under the Soviets. Since 2021, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (UJCU) has run a project to place simple memorials at Jewish cemeteries all over the country. To date, more than 120 have been installed, many even in the two years since Russia’s invasion sparked the ongoing war. The project is coordinated by Vitalii Kamozin, the UJCU’s Chief Operating Officer. In this essay, Kamozin describes the project, with comments also by Milton Koch, who has been independently organizing a cemetery marker in his ancestral village.