The Kaunas branch of the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture’s Cultural Heritage Department has called for an immediate halt to the demolition of a former wooden synagogue in the town of Kulautuva, near Kaunas. The synagogue was built in 1935 but had long … continue reading →
January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is marked in many countries as the international Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is an occasion for commemorative ceremonies, educational programs, and other initiatives. Monuments and memorials are also dedicated. This year … continue reading →
Here’s a video of the (snowy) official ceremony January 22 opening the historic wooden “Green Synagogue” in Rezekne, Latvia after a €700,000 renovation process that lasted a decade. The building — as we reported earlier — will be a wooden … continue reading →
A prayer service was held this month in a historic wooden synagogue in Istanbul that had been closed and out of use for more than half a century — but within days a wall outside the building had been defaced by anti-semitic … continue reading →
The modernist-functionalist Agudas Achim synagogue on Skořepka street in Brno, Czech Republic, has reopened after a renovation — and as part of the ceremony received a newly written Torah scroll. The renovation was in part funded with a €204,409 grant from the … continue reading →
