(JHE) — A Belarus-born artist who escaped to Poland from Ukraine has created a spectacular mural made from thousands of fragments of mirrors that extends across the outside of the wall of the Jewish cemetery in Kalisz. Titled “Source,” the … continue reading →
(JHE) — Some exciting discoveries have been made recently in Jewish cemeteries in western Ukraine — including by local high school students carrying out research in the Jewish cemetery in Horodok who revealed a matzevah bearing the rare “Three Hares” … continue reading →
The three adjacent Jewish cemeteries in Siret, in the far north of Romania on the border with Ukraine, form an extremely significant complex of Jewish burial grounds dating back centuries. The elaborately decorated matzevot from the Old Jewish Cemetery (in … continue reading →
Renovation of a 17th century building in the town of Stade, in northern Germany, that once housed a synagogue will be undertaken thanks in part to a €100,000 grant from the private German Foundation for Monument Protection (DSD). The DSD … continue reading →
The retired Pope Benedict XVI, who died December 31 at the age of 95, visited Rome’s majestic Tempio Maggiore — Great Synagogue — on January 17, 2010. It was the second visit by a pope to the synagogue, located across … continue reading →
