During the conference in Vilnius earlier in September about how to commemorate the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Vilnius, a new Virtual Reality app presenting the synagogue in 3D was debuted. Watch the trailer for it here: … continue reading →
” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] The Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter for September is out. News, views, insights, and info from Romania, Hungary, France, Italy, Belarus, Transnistria, Poland …. and a quick link to register for the upcoming conference on … continue reading →
The delicate restoration of the elaborately carved and painted wooden Ark, or Aron Kodesh, of the 17th century Great Synagogue in Iaşi is moving forward, and experts expect it to be completed by spring, 2018. Project Director Lucia … continue reading →
A juvenile court in Saverne, Bas-Rhin, France handed down eight to 18 months suspended sentences to five young men for having desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Sarre-Union in the Alsace region of eastern France, also damaging a Holocaust memorial … continue reading →
Sefer – the Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization in Moscow — carried out clean-up and epigraphic work this summer at the ruined and overgrown Jewish cemetery in Rashkov (Raşcov), Transnistria, whose gravestones date back to the 18th century. Raşcov … continue reading →
