Spring is here (sort of) — and travel season approaches….We try to keep track of the growing list of Jewish travel and tourism apps… here are two more: for Edinburgh, Scotland and for the Czech Republic. (Click the category in … continue reading →
A hi-tech new museum complex centered on the renovated synagogue in the Lake Balaton resort town of Balatonfüred, Hungary, honors Jewish achievement in science and technology. Owned by the municipality, the House of Jewish Excellence opened March 20 in the synagogue … continue reading →
The “Synagogue Garden,” a sculptural/architectural memorial installed last year at the site of the destroyed Great Synagogue in Bauska, Latvia, has received an “Annual Latvian Award in Construction” award. The monument, carried out by the Council of Jewish Communities of … continue reading →
If you’re in Lithuania — there is still time to see “Back to Shul,” an exhibition of photographs of Lithuanian synagogues by the British photographer Richard Schofield, the founder and creative director of the International Centre for Litvak Photography. The … continue reading →
Radauti, Romania: women’s gravestones with candlesticks We’re marking March 8 — International Women’s Day — by saluting the way Jewish women are remembered in visual terms: in this case, the way women are portrayed in Jewish funerary art. Jewish … continue reading →
