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 Ilyayev family completed the writing of a new Torah in memory of their father at the FREE Shul in Crown Heights on Sunday ...

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 ...

Jewish family vacations and foreign travel can be a wonderful opportunity to bond with children and grandkids and create ...

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 site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian ... be lost to make way for a generic new apartment for hipsters. The site of a former century-old synagogue for Ukrainian immigrants ...

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 ...