Synagogues become nightclubs in Eastern Europe The new establishments reference their past function in a development that some find touching and others condemn as disrespectful.
US envoy’s son has bar mitzvah at his ancestors’ shul in Prague Ambassador Andrew H. Schapiro, whose mother fled Europe in 1939, returned to her family's synagogue with his 13-year-old son for a joyful service full of symbolic significance.
At 105, ‘British Schindler’ celebrated in Prague Czech President Miloš Zeman presented Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of Jewish children in the 1930s, with the country’s highest honor.
