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A Torah scroll that the Nazis stole from a Czech congregation on display at The Memorial Scrolls Trust in London, UK. (Courtesy of the European Union for Progressive Judaism)

Torah scroll the Nazis stole for their post-Holocaust ‘Jewish museum’ returns to service in Prague

“Item 1052” belonged to a congregation in Brno when the Nazis stole it.

Pavlina Šulcová, the founder of JCC Prague, at her apartment in Praguem, the Czech Republic in 2020. (Courtesy of Šulcová)

In Prague, the world’s 1st virtual Jewish community center aims to revitalize a declining minority

Designed to fill a cultural void exacerbated by COVID-19, the online project offers podcasts, cooking lessons and the first Czech-language Haggadah in years.

A woman from the Bulgarian Jewish community attends a commemoration ceremony at Sofia's synagogue on March 10, 2013 (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Coronavirus crisis is testing the resilience of Europe’s small Jewish communities

The suspension of international travel and foreign tourism is making the financial model of communal groups in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and beyond “unsustainable,” their leaders say.

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