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France: The Heritage Foundation – Fondation du Patrimoine – announces seven grants to restore synagogues and other Jewish heritage. They are the first selection of its new Jewish Heritage Program, supported by the Edmond J. Safra Foundation

France’s Heritage Foundation – Fondation du Patrimoine – has announced nearly €1 million in funding to several synagogues, a historic Jewish cemetery, and another Jewish site as part of the Jewish Heritage Program it launched in June 2025 with the … continue reading →

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Call for Applications: JewishGen’s L’Dor V’Dor Legacy Program for university students and recent graduates. Jewish heritage education and opportunity to help clean-up and preserve a Jewish cemetery in Poland

We are pleased to share this Call for Applications for JewishGen’s sixth annual Bennett and Robin Greenspan L’Dor V’Dor Legacy Program for university students and recent graduates, to take place from July 7 to July 16, 2026. The deadline for applications … continue reading →

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JHE Photo Essay for Tu B’Shevat 2026: Trees and fruit in Jewish decorative art; in synagogues, on gravestones, and as part of ritual objects

It’s Tu B’Shevat — the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat, known as “the New Year for Trees:” the time of year when the earliest-blooming trees in the land of Israel start to flower.  It is the custom to reflect on our … continue reading →

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2026: Naming names and highlighting the growing Holocaust Memorial Monuments Database

Pinkas synagogue, Prague. Names of the more than 77,000 Holocaust victims from Bohemia and Moravia

January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945, is marked in many countries as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also dedicated or … continue reading →

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Hungary: Rare ceramic tombstones from the historic Jewish cemetery in Tata are undergoing restoration, part of the ongoing restoration, maintenance and documentation of the cemetery

Rare ceramic tombstones are undergoing restoration as part of a general ongoing project to restore. maintain, and document  the historic Jewish cemetery in Tata.  Three ceramic grave markers belonging to Áron Mózes Fischer (1796-1861) and members of his family were … continue reading →

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