Mazel tov! Just in time for Rosh Hashana, a ceremony in Debrecen, Hungary on Sunday celebrated the re-opening of the city’s 104-year-old Kápolnás street synagogue, after a fullscale renovation financed as part of a more than €1.41 million grant from the European Union’s … continue reading →
Two books on Jewish heritage in Romania that were originally published in hardback have now come out as E-books on the i-Books platform, available via iTunes, making them finally available to a wider public. Click the blue links to get … continue reading →
Thanks to a grant for archival preservation, a volunteer clean-up operation, and a series of scheduled cultural and religious events, the synagogue in Medias in Romania is slowly coming back to life. Built in around 1897, the synagogue … continue reading →
The Jewish fast day of Tisha B’av, or the Ninth of Av, was marked this week (August 4-5). It commemorates and mourns the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies that befell the Jewish people. In honor … continue reading →
Mazel tov! After about four years of work, the fullscale restoration of the synagogue in Tulcea, southeastern Romania, has been completed — the Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities announces that the formal inauguration of the building, built in 1888, will … continue reading →
