Last night — June 4-5 — was the sixth edition of the “7@Nite” or “Night of the Synagogues” in Krakow, a wonderful initiative where all seven of the synagogues in the historic Jewish district, Kazimierz, were opened to the … continue reading →
Details of plans to convert the abandoned, art deco Greenbank Drive synagogue into apartments have been revealed. The Liverpool Echo — which had featured the synagogue in its “Stop the Rot” preservation campaign — writes that a planning application … continue reading →
ShUM is an acronym of the first letters of the medieval Hebrew names of three cities in Germany: Shin (Sh) = Shpira = Speyer; Vav (represented as U) = Warmaisa = Worms; and Mem (M) = Magenza = Mainz. In … continue reading →
The Monastiriotes synagogue in Thessaloniki, Greece, one of the few synagogues to have survived in a city that before World War II had nearly 60, was ceremoniously reopened this month after a full restoration. Designed by the Czech … continue reading →
We reported a few days ago about state grants to Jewish heritage projects, specifically the restoration of synagogues, in Lithuania. One of these was €80,000 granted as first stage funding to repair the roof and facade of the wooden … continue reading →
