At the beginning of December, a nearly 3,000 people packed Budapest’s majestic Dohany St. synagogue — the largest synagogue in Europe — for a concert by the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) and guest artist Daniel Barenboim. The concert … continue reading →
The night of November 9-10 marks the 78th anniversary of the so-called Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish places of worship all over Germany and German-occupied … continue reading →
A small synagogue in an outlying neighborhood of Budapest sustained heavy damage in a fire. The blaze, which broke out the night of October 24 in the synagogue in Budapest’s 14th district, Zuglo, gutted the sanctuary, destroyed the synagogue’s Torah … continue reading →
On the first day, you will take for yourselves a fruit of a beautiful tree, palm branches, twigs of a braided tree and brook willows, and you will rejoice before the lord your God for seven days. -Leviticus 23:40 … continue reading →
The August-September Jewish Heritage Europe Newsletter is out. The themes include volunteerism, new Jewish museums, Jewish culture days — and more. It features news and info from Ukraine, Poland, England, Scotland, Belarus, Slovakia, Malta, Czech Republic, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Romania, … continue reading →
