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.
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.
‘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.
United States Synagogues closed again in California following new statewide restrictions responding to rise in coronavirus cases
Global England is allowing places of worship to reopen for individuals, but synagogues won’t open yet
Global Nearly half the Jewish sites in Syria have been ruined. The fate of most Iraqi sites is unknown.