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Article Profiles U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad

  Lesley Weiss was recently named Chair of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad –and  her first public participation in a major Jewish heritage preservation event was at last month’s conference in Krakow on Managing Jewish … continue reading →

Award to Ukrainian who’s restoring 16th century Sataniv synagogue

JTA reports that Boris Slobodnyuk, a  Ukrainian Christian who is working to save the dilapidated, 16th-century fortress synagogue in Sataniv,was honored at an interaith forum in Kiev. It said Slobodnyuk received the forum’s 2013 Crystal Noah Tolerance Award on Tuesday at … continue reading →