The Low Country Digital Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina, has uploaded 430 postcards of central and eastern European synagogues from the Rabbi William A. Rosenthall Collection of Judaica, which is held at the College. Rosenthall was the rabbi at … continue reading →
The Canadian Jewish News highlights a Jewish cemetery restoration project in the Russian town of Mysovsk or Mysovaya, now called Babushkin, on the southern shore of Lake Baikal. Today a stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the town was until … continue reading →
May 18 is International Museum Day, an annual event established in 1977 by the International Council of Museums. In 2012, 32,000 museums from 129 countries on five continents took part — and this year the numbers are expected to be much … continue reading →
JTA reports that the Siberian city of Tomsk will return a century-old wooden synagogue built by Jewish soldiers to the Jewish community. The synagogue and surrounding complex will be handed over to the Jewish Community of Tomsk after the municipality finds … continue reading →
Laser portraits on Jewish gravestones are a common means of personalizing the stones in the former Soviet Union — and now this trend has been transported to the United States by recent immigrants. The Forward runs a wonderful narrated … continue reading →
