Tag: Jewish Heritage
‘Sephardic Weekend’ to celebrate Jewish culture of Spain, Portugal, Morocco
Food, music, prayer and discussion will provide an engaging glimpse of an ancient culture and the people who still connect with it, as part of “Sephardic Weekend.”
Hosted by Congregation Bet Haverim’s Adult Education Committee,...
Jewish cemetery granted Grade II status in the National Heritage List in England
The oldest Jewish cemetery in Britain outside of London – which dates back to 1744 – has been granted Grade II listed status.
Plymouth Hoe Old Jews Burial Ground was originally created in a garden...
Book to place history of Kansas Jews in regional context
LAWRENCE — The history of Midwest Jews is an area ripe for scholarship, and the University of Kansas is well-placed to be a center of such study, according to a researcher who has begun...
Sole remnant of Dutch town’s Jewish community on display at Yad Vashem
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Stained glass from the synagogue that served the Jews of the Dutch city of Assen, almost all of whom were killed in the Holocaust, is now displayed at the synagogue of...
Jewish heritage bonds characters in ‘Call me by your name’
The film "Call Me By Your Name" features Jewish main characters and will screen opening night during the Miami Film Festival's mini-fest, GEMS 2017.
The film makes its Florida premiere on Oct. 12 at 7...
Missing Jewish heritage, due to missing Jewish education
The last 200 years saw major events in the Jewish world. Jews gained citizenship; received secular educations as Jewish enlightenment spread through Europe; and saw Theodor Herzl’s Zionism stir the hope for a Jewish...
From Poland to Lithuania: A writer’s search for her Jewish past
I think I was in an iced-over bus lot in northeastern Poland, standing in front of a mound of desecrated gravestones, when I first had the feeling that Jewish heritage travel in Europe might...
The 40-year disappearance and resurgence of Polish-Jewish culture
Each of Chuck Fishman’s photos tell a thousand words.
In 1975, Fishman, a photojournalist, traveled to Poland to examine what Jewish life was like in Poland after the Holocaust. While visiting cities like Lodz, Wroclaw,...
Morocco’s muslim monarch is trying to preserve the country’s Jewish history—before it’s too late
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQMr2bvXIqs
A decade ago, when Elmehdi Boudra began attending college in his native Morocco, he didn’t expect to see swastikas scrawled on his door. Like almost every other student at his school, Boudra is Muslim....
‘A great project for all Egyptians’: Egypt to repair synagogue in city of eight...
Alexandria’s historic synagogue has very few visitors. In a city once home to almost 25,000 Jews, Alexandria’s Jewish community is now said to number fewer than eight people, most of whom are elderly.
Originally built...