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By Tamar Svanidze Journalist, Global Affairs   An interior view of the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue during in Alexandria, Egypt. EPA-EFE//KHALED ELFIQI After undergoing extensive renovations, the Egyptian government reopened to much fanfare a six-hundred-year-old synagogue in the country’s Mediterranean coastal city Alexandria on January 10, a ceremony that was attended …

Roque Pugliese and Ivana Pezzoli getting married at the Bova Marina Synagogue in Calabria, Italy on June 4, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Shavei Israel) (JTA) — An Italian couple whose ancestors were forced to hide their faith got married atop the ruins of an ancient synagogue, giving the site its …

Jews were a significant minority till 1950s in Turkey. There are approximately 15.000 Jews living in Istanbul and about 1.500 in Izmir today. As a consequence, there are very important examples of Jewish cultural heritage in the country. Here are five synagogues that have international reputation and significance. NEVE SHALOM …

By Jake Romm While the Iberian Peninsula continues to experience a reckoning with, and resurgence of, its Jewish past, a quieter, but similar, reckoning is taking place on the island of Sicily, specifically, in the capital city of Palermo. A New York Times piece published earlier this week tells the story …

Which is the world’s longest continuously running synagogue? I posed this question over two month ago, and received many comments and suggestions. My working assumption was that London’s Bevis Marks Synagogue is the longest running synagogue. It is where I have the privilege to serve as rabbi. Most of the world’s Jews were …

The erudite and respected jewish historian Isaac Emmanuel was of the opinion that there was most likely an organised synagogue in Brazil in 1633/34, this conviction was based on the solid evidence of the purchase by Simon Drago of a Sepher Torah, (the holy scroll of jewish law), in Amsterdam on the 10th of June …

For the past 15 years, Jews of all traditions have enjoyed the Sephardic Kehila Centre’s extraordinary facilities and programming. Countless people have participated in its myriad activities designed for men, women and children at every age and stage of their cultural, educational and religious development. Crowned with its distinctive dome …

The Jews who came to Izmir from Spain and Portugal after the expulsions of 1492 and 1497 brought with them their own ideas about how to build synagogues. The result were magnificent houses of worship, 34 in total, built mostly between the 16th and 19th centuries. The names of three of them bear witness to …