Today, March 8, is marked around the world as International Women’s Day. In past years, we have marked the day with photo essays showing how women have been represented in Jewish art (click HERE for 2019 and HERE for 2018) … continue reading →
Mazel tov to the historian, architect, and artist Natalia Romik, who has won a prestigious Dan David prize to further her work on researching and preserving the hiding places used by Jews during the Holocaust! Natalia is one of nine … continue reading →
Our hearts go out to Ukraine! We can’t find the words, so we post here a gallery of Jewish heritage sites, in Kyiv and elsewhere in the country, from happier times…. Jewish presence goes back centuries. Today, following the Holocaust … continue reading →
The Jewish community of Prague carried out the detailed photographic documentation of nearly 2,000 gravestones in several Jewish cemeteries in 2021, according to a recent report posted on the Jewish community web site. Funded as in past years by the … continue reading →
(JHE) — 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 … continue reading →
