The year 2015 marks the700th anniversary of the synagogue in Cordoba, Spain, and among activities leading up to celebrations, the fifth training seminar on Jewish culture in Cordoba, which takes place this week, focuses on tourism and especially the synagogue, … continue reading →
Mazel Tov to the Polish intellectual and activist Krzysztof Czyszewski, the founder and director of the Borderland Foundation (Fundacja Pogranicze) in Sejny, Poland, who has received one of this year’s Dan David prizes. Czyzewski, writes the Jerusalem Post, citing the … continue reading →
The Municipal Museum in Gliwice, Poland is seeking old photographs of the Ceremonial Hall of the Jewish cemetery there. The neo-Gothic red-brick building is under development as a branch of the museum that will house a permanent exhibition on Jewish history … continue reading →
According to the news site InSerbia, vandals struck the Jewish cemetery in Subotica, Serbia the night of Feb. 10-11, damaging nine gravestones. It was the third episode of vandalism against the cemetery in the past two years. In July, … continue reading →
A ceremony Feb. 3 in Ponta Delgada, on the island of San Miguel in the Portuguese Azores, kicked off the restoration of the Shaar Hashomaylum Synagogue, which was built around 1820 and consecrated in 1836 and is Portugal’s oldest synagogue built … continue reading →
