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Romania notes: Alba Iulia, Harlau, Focsani synagogue restoration

    The restoration of the synagogue in Alba Iulia, Romania is “95 percent complete,” and the building will be rededicated next year, reports Lucia Apostol, deputy director of the Federation of Romania Jewish Communities’ department for the development and … continue reading →

Download the “Vanished World” Jewish heritage 2017 Calendar

For the second year in a row, the photographer Christian Herrmann, whose work we have featured on JHE, is offering a gift for the upcoming Hanukkah and Christmas season — a 12-month calendar illustrated with his photographs, which is available … continue reading →

Kristallnacht: Wonderful surviving — and restored — synagogues to mark the anniversary

      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 →