Pavla Niklová, director of the Jewish Museum in Prague, lights the Sabbath candles as Ec Chajim’s Rabbi David Maxa watches nearby during Yom Kippur services on Oct. 12, 2024, in the Klausen ...

Congregants from Ec Chajim pray in Prague’s Klausen Synagogue on Yom Kippur, Oct. 11, 2024. Dana Cabanova; courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague ...

There is no capital in present-day Europe so fitted for a Jewish Congress as Prague. Situated in the centre of Europe, the capital of a young State that has been very kindly treated by the world ...

JTA — For the first time since World War II, one of Prague’s most historic synagogues has held a Jewish prayer service. Kol Nidre, the introductory service of Yom Kippur, took place in the ...

Go to Prague, and the need to choose disappears. Visitors of all faiths — and none — head for the famous Jewish Quarter, one of the mainstream attractions.

Inspired by Granada's Alhambra, the Spanish Synagogue holds the distinction of being the most recently built synagogue in Prague's Jewish Quarter. While the Spanish Synagogue may be new by Prague ...

During and after the decimation of Eastern Europe’s Jewish populations in the Holocaust, even the dead were not spared: Locals, their Nazi occupiers and their communist rulers looted Jewish cemeteries ...

In early 2020, Pavlina Šulcová was on the verge of making history in her hometown: She had identified a space that could house the Czech Republic’s first modern Jewish community center.

(RNS) — The sounds of Jewish prayer rang out in Prague’s Klausen Synagogue on Saturday (Oct. 12) for the first time in more than 80 years as the city’s progressive Jewish community, Ec ...