We have a new Have Your Say personal essay — about the magnificent Fabric Synagogue în Timișoara, Romania. The synagogue îs — finally — under restoration after decades of neglect. Designed by the prolific Hungarian synagogue architect Lipót Baumhorn, it … continue reading →
We have a new Have Your Say Personal Essay…Called Zine creation as a form of heritage preservation, it’s by the Hungarian visual artist Bence Illyés, who has used Zines — small, informal, hand-made publications — to explore aspects of the … continue reading →
For four days in mid-June, about 150 soldiers from the German Bundeswehr’s 45th Panzer Brigade joined members of the Maceva Jewish cemetery preservation group to clean up the old Jewish cemetery and Holocaust monument in Merkinė, in southeast Lithuania. The … continue reading →
Restored post (originally posted Feb. 17, 2025) During our recent outage, we lost material, including our latest Have Your Say personal essay — an essay titled Discover and Connect – How Tourism can make a Difference, by Flavia Matei. We … continue reading →
Back in 2017, Oxford scholar Abigail Green wrote a Have Your Say op-ed for us, titled How recognizing the “Jewish country house” expands our understanding of Jewish heritage. She argued that, in addition to synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, tahara houses, and … continue reading →
