The United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad has honored U.S. Representative Grace Meng (D-NY) for having sponsored a new law, the “Protect Cemeteries Act,” that makes the desecration of cemeteries a violation of religious freedom. Meng … continue reading →
What is it like to volunteer for a campaign to clean-up a vast, overgrown Jewish cemetery? In this blog post, Yevhenii Shatskyi, the camp leader for this summer’s SVIT International work camp at the Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsy, Ukraine, details … continue reading →
Two books on Jewish heritage in Romania that were originally published in hardback have now come out as E-books on the i-Books platform, available via iTunes, making them finally available to a wider public. Click the blue links to get … continue reading →
A new association has been founded to promote and develop Jewish heritage in southern Italy’s Calabria region, the toe of the Italian boot, where Jews flourished in ancient times and in the middle ages but were ordered expelled in … continue reading →
Sam Gruber has written a detailed appreciation of the new monument recently dedicated at the site of the Jewish cemetery in Serock, Poland — about 40 km north of Warsaw — and we are cross-posting it here from his … continue reading →
