The Jewish community in Konstanz, Germany, has a brand new synagogue. The new synagogue in the city, located on Lake Constance on the Swiss border, was inaugurated on Sunday (Nov. 10) — 81 years after the city’s pre-WW2 synagogue was … continue reading →
Following two years of renovation work, the Jewish museum in the 15th century former synagogue in Tomar, Portugal reopened earlier in October as the Interpretive Center of Tomar Synagogue and Abraão Zacuto Luso-Hebraic Museum. The €280,000 revamp was financed by … continue reading →
The synagogue in Arlon, in southeast Belgium — the oldest in Belgium — has been reopened after a fullscale renovation project over the past five years that repaired structural and other damage to both the exterior and interior of the … continue reading →
After four years of work, stained glass windows by a Jewish American artist have been installed and dedicated in a church in Germany that occupies a former synagogue. The six vividly colorful windows by the artist Barney Zeitz were dedicated … continue reading →
In occasion of the European Maccabi Games — taking place this week in Budapest, the family monument in Budapest’s vast Kozma utca Jewish cemetery marking the grave of Alfréd Hajós, the first Hungarian and first Jewish Olympic Champion, has been … continue reading →
