For decades, London-based Rabbi Andrew Goldstein has traveled to central Europe helping in the revival of Jewish life. In particular, he has forged close ties between his own congregation and the town of Kolín in the Czech Republic, whose Jewish community was destroyed in the Holocaust but whose baroque synagogue, medieval ghetto and ancient Jewish cemetery still stand.
In our new “Have Your Say” essay, he describes how it all began with a sermon he gave in 1978….
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And wouldn’t it be a mitzhpha if the torah was returned and/or some of the furnishings, items, etc that were original to the synagogue made their way back! What better way to support the local initiative and honor the heritage.
if only the walls could talk, when did they last hear the shmah!
Great article! Thanks for posting. I loved the video of the liturgical chants in the baroque synagogue. Very touching and poignant.
Thanks — but to clarify, the chants video is not in the baroque Kolín synagogue but in the synagogue in Liptovsky Mikulov in Slovakia….a beautiful but neglected building…..