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Lights for the Festival of Lights!

  JHE wishes all of our readers a very happy Hanukkah and holiday season! Hanukkah — the Festival of Lights — lasts this year from Dec. 16 to Dec. 24. During the festival Jews light a special nine-branched Hanukkah Menorah, … continue reading →

Watch rededication of Bucharest Choral Synagogue live online

Just a note — you can watch the rededication ceremony of the Choral Temple in Bucharest complete with a Hanukkah candle-lighting and concert, live on the internet, starting at 18.00 (Romanian time) Dec. 16 at : http://live.fcer.ro (PC or MAC) … continue reading →

Choral Synagogue in Bucharest to be rededicated after 8-year renovation

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of its construction, Bucharest’s Choral Synagogue will be rededicated on Dec. 16 — the first night of Hanukkah — following an extensive, eight-year renovation process. The restoration was realized with the support of … continue reading →

There’s hope for restoration of ruined Constanța, Romania synagogue

  The first steps have been taken toward the possible restoration of the ruined Ashkenazic Great Synagogue in the Black Sea port city of Constanța, Rpmania. A team of architects visited the site this week to assess the condition of the devastated … continue reading →

Glorious synagogues to mark anniversaries: 25 years since the Wall came down (and 76 years since Kristallnacht)

  The Berlin Wall came down 25-years ago, on November 9, 1989 — a day that also marked the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of Nov. 9-10 1938 when the Nazis launched coordinated violent attacks on Jews, Jewish property and Jewish … continue reading →