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JHE Photo Essay: Trees and Fruit in Jewish decorative art, for Tu B’Shevat 2022

Monday marks Tu B’Shevat — the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat, which is known as “the New Year for Trees.” It is the time of year when the earliest-blooming trees in the land of Israel start to flower.  It is the … continue reading →

Hungary: New web portal offers detailed digital models & interactive 3D virtual tours of Hungarian synagogues

(JHE) — A new web site features detailed digital models and interactive virtual tours of a diverse group of synagogues in Hungary — from a gothic medieval synagogue in Sopron dating from the 14th century, to the grandiose New Synagogue … continue reading →

Jewish Cemetery Clean-ups: Special Winter Round-up edition

Between May and October  2021, we published four Jewish cemetery clean-up round-ups, in which we listed around 270 initiatives in 18 countries and more than 150 towns, cities, and villages. In these round-ups, we showed how hundreds of volunteers and others … continue reading →

JHE Year in Review: Check out our most popular posts of 2021 — an amazing variety of topics and geographical locations

As we close out a second year marked by the pandemic and more forward into 2022, we look back at the most popular news, views, and insights we have posted on Jewish Heritage Europe over the past 12 months. The … continue reading →

Happy Hanukkah 2021 from JHE!

Jewish Heritage Europe wishes all our readers and friends a Happy Hanukkah! Thank you for your interest and support — and thanks especially to those of you who have contacted us with questions and comments, with news of publications and … continue reading →