In Eastern Europe, historic synagogues are sold for the price of a used car But new owners often need to commit to restore the structures that local governments and Jewish communities are having difficulties maintaining. By Cnaan Liphshiz March 5, 2021 10:43 am
Text Messages Ideas Why should we go back to synagogue? Rabbi Yosie Levine describes how being actively engaged in a synagogue community can help us become more compassionate and empathetic Jews. February 17, 2021 2:13 pm
‘It’s knocking on everyone’s doors’: Chicago’s Jewish community is battered by second wave of coronavirus The city’s positivity rate reached 16% this week, complicating efforts to keep schools and synagogues open. November 17, 2020 3:13 pm
European synagogues keep on their lights to mark 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms By Cnaan Liphshiz November 9, 2020 3:40 pm
Obninsk, Russia, home of the world’s first nuclear power plant, gets its first synagogue By Cnaan Liphshiz October 7, 2020 11:59 am
French interior minister vows protection for synagogues on Yom Kippur after terror attack By Marcy Oster September 27, 2020 9:15 am
Synagogues closed again in California following new statewide restrictions responding to rise in coronavirus cases By Marcy Oster July 14, 2020 1:14 pm
England is allowing places of worship to reopen for individuals, but synagogues won’t open yet By Marcy Oster June 8, 2020 2:33 pm
Nearly half the Jewish sites in Syria have been ruined. The fate of most Iraqi sites is unknown. By Cnaan Liphshiz June 5, 2020 3:16 pm