The mayor of Rădăuți plans to clean up the town’s sprawling Jewish cemetery and (potentially) integrate it and the imposing Radauti synagogue into local heritage tourism routes. “A personal, soulful project, which in the spring will turn into reality, is the … continue reading →
(JHE) — The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland (FODZ) has launched a new web site and project aimed at fostering public awareness of synagogues, cemeteries and other Jewish built heritage via digital models and detailed virtual … continue reading →
(JHE) — The Jews in East Prussia History and Culture Association is preparing a museum of local Jewish history to be hosted in the rebuilt New Synagogue in Kaliningrad, Russia (formerly Königsberg, East Prussia). The New Synagogue, a grandiose domed building, … continue reading →
The grand, largely demolished Choral Synagogue in Samara, on the Volga River in Russia, is in the process of full reconstruction under the auspices of Chabad. Though work was already under way earlier, a symbolic cornerstone was laid September 30 in a … continue reading →
London’s historic Bevis Marks synagogue has won a first round in attempts to prevent two planned high-rise towers to overshadow it. On Tuesday the City of London Corporation Planning Committee rejected plans to build Bury House, a 48-storey office tower next to the … continue reading →
