Topic: Czernowitz

December 27, 2012
2:45 am

Now in their 80s, Rose and Ralph Gartenberg recently traveled from London to Israel on El Al -- the same trip that introduced them 63 years ago. (Courtesy of the Gartenberg family)

For young Holocaust refugees, early El Al trip proved love at first flight

Despite an emergency landing, the airline’s inaugural trip from London set a lifelong romance on its path to takeoff

By Sharon Kanon

November 24, 2012
9:05 pm

A dozen synagogues used to operate in Chernivtsi, which now has a Jewish population roughly 2 percent the size of its prewar total. (Photo credit: CC BY Chernivtsi via Flickr.com)

With few Jewish neighbors, residents of Ukrainian town attend ‘cinegogue’

Locals in Chernivtsi, once home to a sizable Jewish population, now see movies in a former house of worship

By Maria Danilova