But steep pro-Palestinian sentiment, an aging population and the departure of the spiritual leader are all challenges.

Soviet leader Josef Stalin's legacy includes mass purges and executions. Statues of him in Russia came down decades ago, but ...

One of the most spectacular mosaics ever found in Israel is now on display to the public for the first time. The Be’er Shema ...

The Berdychiv synagogue, also a Jewish shelter, is badly in need of repair — but no sponsor has come forth. Volunteer Hennadiy Kysliuk (inset) sees no future, but he’s not giving up. (Getty Images via ...

And they held a klezmer concert to raise enough money to buy the building that has been in continuous use as a synagogue ever since — making ... This time for the roof. The old shingles need to be ...

Today, it is preserved by 23-year-old Beniamin Levishvili, the synagogue’s gabbai and guardian ... Today, most have been built over to accommodate new houses. Boterashvili says that the rise ...

Imagine an interfaith choir’s harmonies echoing off synagogue walls as new doors opened to old prayers. This part of America’s nineteenth and early twentieth century Jewish history is not well ...

The Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz, converted into a church around 1970, is one of the last remaining tenement synagogue buildings in the neighborhood. One of the last remaining tenement ...

Many families left the Old City and moved to the new part of the city, and most of the houses of study and houses of prayer were abandoned, including Ohel Yitzchak. The synagogue and yeshiva moved ...

The Chai Center for Living Judaism is asking the Millburn Township Planning Board to approve construction of a two-story, 21,027-square-foot synagogue at 165 Old Short Hills Road in the township ...

Whether to fill the space with an old-new building isn’t all that is up for debate. The synagogue controversy is about Jewish life in Germany today, argues Hamburg sociologist Suanne Krasmann ...