After nearly three months of Coronavirus shutdown, the grand synagogue in Florence opened for a day on Sunday, with an art installation marking Shavuot that directly channeled the work of the great Florentine Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. The synagogue immediately … continue reading →
The festival of Shavuot, which begins tonight, marks the reception of the Torah — and Ten Commandments — at Mt. Sinai. Jews traditionally go to synagogue on Shavuot to hear the Ten Commandments read out: 1. I am the Lord … continue reading →
Our new Have Your Say essay is a must-read from Sally Berkovic, the CEO of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. In a thoughtful yet provocative essay, she proposes Ten (other) Commandments — Commandments for the care of Jewish Heritage. They … continue reading →
Restoration work on the former synagogue of Apostag, a Danube-side village 80 km south of Budapest, is nearly complete. The building – listed as a national monument and now used as a municipal culture center — should be reopened to … continue reading →
City archaeologists in Frankfurt have uncovered the foundations of the synagogue in the city’s Höchst neighborhood, which was built in 1905 on what is now Ettinghausen-Platz and destroyed on Kristallnacht, November 1938. Höchst was an independent town until incorporated into … continue reading →
