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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Jewish heritage

Performing at Apollonia Park during Sukkot 2023 (Courtesy Mano Grinspan)
September 29, 2023, 4:32 pm
Outside of the sukkah, festivals of every kind abound in Israel
An array of musical, theatrical, artistic, culinary and historical events livens up the country during Sukkot 5784
By Jessica Steinberg
The Merthyr Tydfil synagogue, which opened in 1877, has been out of use since 2006. (Chris Andrews/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
July 8, 2022, 3:50 am
UK grants $600,000 lifeline to turn old Welsh synagogue into Jewish cultural hub
Foundation for Jewish Heritage, which bought Merthyr Tydfil synagogue building in 2019, plans to transform it into first museum dedicated to the history of Welsh Jews
By MADELINE FIXLER
An advertisement for Tom Stoppard's 'Leopoldstadt' (via Twitter)
June 9, 2022, 11:52 am
Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ to explore Jewish roots on Broadway
Family of famous British playwright born Tomas Straussler fled from Czechoslovakia to Singapore during World War II
By JTA
Dara Horn (Michael B. Priest)
September 17, 2021, 12:08 pm
‘People Love Dead Jews,’ says Dara Horn, but the living ones don’t fare as well
The acclaimed novelist pivots to non-fiction, explaining the myriad ways Jews have been — and still are — forced to erase their particularistic identity when living among non-Jews
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Synagogue in Mosul, Iraq, as seen in a France 24 report from April 2019. (Youtube still)
June 5, 2020, 4:08 pm
Iraq’s Jewish sites almost all ruined beyond repair, new heritage report finds
More than half sites in Syria also in terrible condition or worse; neglect and redevelopment blamed, after repression and emigration decimated Jewish life in the 2 countries
By Robert Philpot
A ruined synagogue in Chisinau, Moldova (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
December 20, 2019, 9:52 pm
Holocaust ‘orphaned’ European synagogues, Council of Europe says
Organization urges its 47 member states to consider genocide’s effects on their Jewish populations when deciding policies on current, former places of worship
By JTA
Social media has had considerable influence on the tattoo culture, expert says (Illustrative. Gili Yaari/Flash90)
November 16, 2019, 8:19 pm
Israelis increasingly getting tattoos that bind them to ancestors’ old countries
No longer apologetic about their ethnicity, a growing number of Sabras choose to illustrate how their link to their heritage is more than skin deep
By Ira Tolchin Immergluck
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