Admission to the synagogue, included in the self-guided tours of both the Jewish Museum (six sites) and Prague Jewish Town (all of the Jewish museum plus the Old-New Synagogue), costs ...

Temple Or Rishon near Sacramento has rededicated a Torah scroll that belonged to a small Czech Jewish community before the ...

Congregation Sha’arei Orah installed its first spiritual leader late last month, with Rabbanit Leah Sarna taking over as one ...

Birkenau, Fredy was once a beautiful young athlete destined for the Olympics - here, novelist Wendy Holden reflects on his ...

I met Jiří Bělohlávek, who came to perform with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, or Jiří Menzel, or Magor [poet Ivan Martin Jirous] – it was his last visit to the United States. “So English and the ...

The Spanish Synagogue, built in 1868 in Prague's Jewish Town, stands on the site of the Old School, a 12th-century prayer house ... with decoration completed in 1882-83. Ring in the Lunar New Year, ...

Picture: Supplied “A swastika on a synagogue ... to begin a new life. Peter Reisman. Picture: Julian Andrews Born in 1939 in Budapest, Hungary, Mr Reismann was four years old and too young ...

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, which reminds Anne of hearing one survivor’s story of making a new life in Co Down ...

The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave Ethiopia, will go on display in Europe ...

3.18-million-year-old grandmother: Lucy’s bones leave Ethiopia for a historic first-ever European display; Prague museum lands the ultimate fossil exhibit. The hyperrealistic artistic ...