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ART RENAISSANCE IN JEWISH KRAKOWKazimierz, the Jewish quarter in beautiful Krakow is a testimony not just to the bright ...
05/01/2024

ART RENAISSANCE IN JEWISH KRAKOW
Kazimierz, the Jewish quarter in beautiful Krakow is a testimony not just to the bright cultural Jewish history of the city , but to its present vibrant creativity as seen at this exhibition by artist Steve Marcus at the Galicia Jewish Museum

HONORING MOTHER LEAHThe Ohel Leah synagogue in Hong Kong has been standing for over 120 years that will be celebrated th...
22/02/2023

HONORING MOTHER LEAH
The Ohel Leah synagogue in Hong Kong has been standing for over 120 years that will be celebrated this early March by its vibrant Jewish community. Its original name was given by its early founders , the three grandsons of David Sassoon, who were some of the early Sephardic leaders in the Jewish community.
As customary in many Jewish temples and other institutions, they requested to honor their mother Leah by putting her name as the name of the new synagogue, a legacy that stays alive after well over a century.

THE WORLD LARGEST SHOFAR IS IN KRAKOW, POLAND.It will definitely take a lot of air to blow a 17-feet (5 meters) Shofar i...
03/10/2022

THE WORLD LARGEST SHOFAR IS IN KRAKOW, POLAND.
It will definitely take a lot of air to blow a 17-feet (5 meters) Shofar in the middle of the most beautiful Polish town.
Dedicated in 2015, this shofar sculpture by artist Richard Edelman is actually blown during the Jewish High Holidays .
Hosted in the courtyard of the JCC of Krakow, hopefully his sounds will reach the not far Ukrainian lands and provide hope and relief to the suffering of the Ukrainian people under Russian attack many of whom have found shelter around the same unique shofar in Polish renewed Jewish living quarters.

The oldest and largest synagogue in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland is the Moorish style Synagoge Zürich Löwenstrass...
04/09/2022

The oldest and largest synagogue in the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland is the Moorish style Synagoge Zürich Löwenstrasse dedicated in 1884 and the spiritual center of the Jewish Community of Zurich.

WHO FRAMED THE MEZUZAH RABBIT?Bringing art and tradition together with biblical symbols of creation, this mezuzah is par...
04/08/2022

WHO FRAMED THE MEZUZAH RABBIT?
Bringing art and tradition together with biblical symbols of creation, this mezuzah is part of a large collection of mezuzot at the Jewish Museum in New York. You can even find the entire Noah’s Ark in one mezuzah.

WHEN SHANGHAI WAS A SAFE HEAVEN FOR REFUGEES. During the Holocaust, Shanghai played a very important role in receiving o...
31/07/2022

WHEN SHANGHAI WAS A SAFE HEAVEN FOR REFUGEES.
During the Holocaust, Shanghai played a very important role in receiving over twenty thousand Jewish refugees escaping the genocide. At the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum , a testimony of the values behind that open arms welcoming attitude to refugees is still standing .
A message from the past to the present when war creates again an enormous refugee crisis in Ukraine

ENLIGHTENING FROM AMSTERDAMBaruch Spinoza’s statue in Amsterdam stands as a reminder of the Philosophical contribution o...
29/07/2022

ENLIGHTENING FROM AMSTERDAM
Baruch Spinoza’s statue in Amsterdam stands as a reminder of the Philosophical contribution of the Sephardic/Portuguese thinker who played an essential role in the foundation of the Enlightememt movement.
In his own words: “"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

LOOKING FOR A JEWISH BRIDE?Don’t get into any app or matchmaker. Amsterdam is waiting for you with one of Rembrandt’s ma...
25/07/2022

LOOKING FOR A JEWISH BRIDE?
Don’t get into any app or matchmaker. Amsterdam is waiting for you with one of Rembrandt’s masterpieces, nicknamed “The Jewish Bride “.
At the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands capital, it is officially named “Portrait of a Couple as Isaac and Rebecca. This oil on canvas from 1665-69 allegorically represents the biblical couple of Isaac and Rebecca though the eyes of master artist Rembrandt van Rijn.

BELLISIMA JEWISH ITALIAIn the little town that gave us the legendary Italian Jewish partisan and writer Isacco Levi, sta...
23/07/2022

BELLISIMA JEWISH ITALIA
In the little town that gave us the legendary Italian Jewish partisan and writer Isacco Levi, stands the late 18th century sinagoga di Saluzzo in Piedmonte.
A testimony of the beautiful aesthetics put into Italian synagogues large or small being in big cities or small towns.


DIG, DINE and VINE.The recent discovery in Central Israel of a Winery from the Byzantine period from 1500 years ago coul...
12/10/2021

DIG, DINE and VINE.
The recent discovery in Central Israel of a Winery from the Byzantine period from 1500 years ago could open the door to wine experiences from the oldest wine ever as the so called Yavne biblical wine left its marks in this very large wine factory.


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THE LAST NEW SYNAGOGUE THAT OPENED IN EUROPE BEFORE DARKNESS The “Sinagoga Kadoorie” opened its doors in 1938 in Porto, ...
02/07/2021

THE LAST NEW SYNAGOGUE THAT OPENED IN EUROPE BEFORE DARKNESS
The “Sinagoga Kadoorie” opened its doors in 1938 in Porto, Portugal at the same time that in other parts of Europe Jews were starting to struggle under the N**i cloud. It now houses a community of Jews from all over the world who have made Porto their home and the synagogue the pillar of a Jewish renaissance.

10/12/2017

THIS CHANUKAH PLAY WITH GULLIVER
This giant Dreidle can be found at the entrance to the Jewish Children Museum in Brooklyn

07/10/2017

A "PICCOLO" , TINY PIECE OF JERUSALEM IN TUSCANY
The Old Jewish Quarter in Pittigliano, Italy is known as the "little Jerusalem" and includes a synagogue and remains from the Jewish Ghetto going back to 1569.

20/09/2017

WHEN FISH ATE EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS
This historical mosaic can be seen among many other historical narratives at the Huqoq synagogue from the 5th Century Roman Period at the Lower Galilee where every year new mosaics are discovered.

08/06/2017

THINKING OF A CARIBBEAN SUMMER HOLIDAY?
St. Thomas Island is waiting for you with a synagogue almost two centuries old still functioning, the Hebrew Congregation of St. Thomas.
Just make sure you bring your sandals as you will be standing on sand !

03/06/2017

THE OLDEST ROMANIOTE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN EUROPE IS IN THE CHALKIS ISLAND IN GREECE
For the past 2500 years, the Jews of Chalkis, an island about 80 km from Athens have lived an uninterrupted Jewish life around their only synagogue, reconstructed several times through the centuries.

08/08/2016

15th Century Etz Hayyim synagogue in Chania, Crete.

08/08/2016

THE ONLY SURVIVING SIGN OF JEWISH LIFE IN CRETE: "The Tree of Life synagogue"
The Etz Hayyim synagogue in Chania, Crete dates back to the 15th century, survived the occupation of the N**is and was restored 20 years ago.

22/09/2015

FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE XXI CENTURY
One of the oldest and most beautiful small synagogues in Europe is in the university town of Padua. Built in 1584, it was closed at the late 1800's because the community built a modern synagogue, but it was reopened after the modern synagogue was destroyed during WW2.

05/08/2015

THE FIRST JEWISH SITE IN LOS ANGELES was the first Jewish Cemetery in town built in 1855 by the first Jewish pioneers coming to settle in the area. It is now located and remembered with this sign near Dodger Stadium.

01/08/2015

WHERE JEWISH ARTISTS AND PHILANTHROPISTS MET JUST BEYOND PARIS
The synagogue of Boulogne-Billancourt, inaugurated in 1911 is at the center of a community where names like Rotschild and Albert Khan played a central role.

15/03/2015

ISRAEL VOTES: The oldest continuous democracy in the Middle East is as young as 66 years old.
The Knesset, symbol of modern Israel, started functioning right after the creation of the new state. It's current building in the Jerusalem hills was opened in 1966 and is based on the historical Great Knesset, an ancient religious assembly of 120 sages that legislated after the biblical prophet times. It currently keeps the original 120 members structure but is made of more than ten political parties representing all the ethnic, religious and ideological groups of Israel.

31/01/2015

THE OLDEST ASHKENAZIC SYNAGOGUE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE IS IN PHILADELPHIA
The Rodeph Shalom synagogue, established in 1795, was the first synagogue founded by immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe in the US. It moved to its current building in 1927, in what is one of the most beautiful Moorish-style temples in North America

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11/01/2015

ALL JEWISH TRAVEL is today with all French people and French Jews sharing this historical day of celebrating freedom.
Sharing a symbol of Jewish life in Paris, the Grand Synagogue of Paris, the largest synagogue in France, standing as La Victoire (the victory) synagogue for the last 140 years.

05/01/2015

A PLACE THAT TAKES YOU BACK TO JEWISH KRAKOW A CENTURY AGO
Klezmer Hois or Klezmer House takes you to the rich intellectual and cultural atmosphere of Kazimierz in Krakow at the beginning of the 20th Century.

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