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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

Prague

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar gives a press conference on November 28, 2024, in Prague, Czech Republic. (Michal Cizek / AFP)
November 28, 2024, 7:04 pm
In Prague, FM Sa’ar says he expects US to punish ICC over arrest warrants
Netanyahu rival-turned-ally urges Czechs to stand with Israel against The Hague, calls on the international community to end ‘Iranian occupation’ in Lebanon
By Lazar Berman
Congregants from Ec Chajim pray in Prague's Klausen Synagogue on Yom Kippur, October 11, 2024. (Dana Cabanova; courtesy of the Jewish Museum in Prague)
October 13, 2024, 11:32 pm
Historic Prague synagogue sees first Yom Kippur service since the Holocaust
Until recently home to a Jewish Museum exhibit, 17th-century Klausen hosted a local progressive congregation whose regular space couldn’t fit the crowds expected for the sacred day
By Shira Li Bartov
Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 2, 2024, 9:46 pm
More airlines cancel flights as Israel braces for potential attack by Iran, its proxies
Aegean, LOT, ITA, KLM and Wizz Air are latest carriers to suspend Israel routes; some 400 travelers stuck in Prague for 3 days after foreign crew bails on Arkia
By ToI Staff
Ambulances and police cars are seen near the Charles University in central Prague, on December 21, 2023, amid a mass shooting. (Michal CIizek/AFP)
December 21, 2023, 8:11 pm
At least 14 people killed in mass shooting at university in downtown Prague
Gunman, who was a student in philosophy department at Charles University, shot dead, police say; Czech minister says incident has no link to international terrorism
By Agencies
File: Czech writer Milan Kundera poses in a garden in Prague on October 14, 1973. (AFP)
July 12, 2023, 3:06 pm
Milan Kundera, exiled Czech author and dissident, dies in Paris aged 94
Fiction writer’s satirical take on one-party state got his works banned in former Czechoslovakia
By Agencies
Yael Schoultz founded a group called L'Chaim, which counsels and supports sex workers. (Courtesy of Schoultz via JTA)
May 27, 2023, 4:32 am
Condoms and tikkun olam: An Orthodox woman strives to aid sex workers in Prague
Yael Schoultz has been dispensing sanitary products and a shoulder to lean on at brothels since 2011; now through L’Chaim, the group she founded, she seeks to help trafficked women
By Dinah Spritzer
Rabbi Judah Loew and the Golem of Prague as painted by Mikoláš Aleš, 1899 (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)
April 22, 2023, 1:31 am
‘A Series Of Unfortunate Events’ author to write horror film based on Golem of Prague
Story set for modern-day version; ‘Everyone knows what it feels like to be the underdog, the outsider,’ producer says. ‘Jewish stories tackle these ideas with humor and drama’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Pavlina Sulcova holds a copy of 'Are We There Yet Moses' outside her office at the Prague Creative Center, October 2022. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)
January 21, 2023, 3:27 am
Directing a virtual JCC, one woman is making Jewish Prague the envy of its neighbors
When COVID scuttled director Pavlina Sulcova’s plans to open a new community space, a pivot to fun educational content paid off big time. She just released her 2nd children’s book
By Yaakov Schwartz
Members of the Jewish community of Prague, the Czech Republic, attend the unveiling of a monument made of Jewish headstones at a local Jewish cemetery, September 7, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Prague via JTA)
September 14, 2022, 8:37 am
Prague cobblestones made from Jewish headstones returned to community
‘Return of the Stones’ monument part of larger effort to address desecration of Jewish cemeteries throughout Eastern Europe after the Holocaust
By Cnaan Liphshiz
President Isaac Herzog speaks to reporters before departing for a visit to Turkey on March 9, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)
July 10, 2022, 8:00 am
Herzog to visit Czech Republic, meet with officials and members of Jewish community
Statement from president’s office says two nations ‘share historical affinity that has found expression in moments of crisis and difficulty’
By ToI Staff
The New Yorker writer, Janet Malcolm, leaves the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco, California, on June 3, 1993. (AP/George Nikitin)
June 17, 2021, 11:58 pm
Janet Malcolm, New Yorker writer who challenged subjects, dies at 86
Jewish journalist earned fans and enemies for willingness to take on colleagues and others, questioning the idea of the dispassionate observer
By Hillel Italie
Zalman Unreich (On) teaching wrestling in Palestine, 1930s. Photo appeared on collecting cards and in book titled, 'Mishmar VeSport' (https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002015431/NLI)
February 13, 2021, 9:10 am
Wrestler, rescuer, diplomat, spy: Grandson unmasks his heroic Israeli patriarch
‘The Undercover Wrestler’ reveals an unknown story of diplomat Zalman On, who used his brawn and brains to save European Jews — and befriended Frank Sinatra
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Franci Rabinek Epstein and daughter Helen Epstein, New York, c. 1950s. (Courtesy of Helen Epstein)
October 10, 2020, 9:24 am
Sexually explicit memoir of women’s abuse in Nazi camps finally sees light
Second-generation trauma expert Helen Epstein publishes late mother Franci Rabinek Epstein’s manuscript, initially rejected in mid-1970s for being ahead of its time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Robert Griesinger (right) in Wehrmacht uniform with one of the horses from the 25th Infantry Division c. 1939 (Courtesy of Jutta Mangold)
June 26, 2020, 4:44 pm
Nazi documents stashed in armchair take author on trail of ‘ordinary’ SS officer
In ‘The SS Officer’s Armchair,’ British-Jewish historian Daniel Lee retraces history of obscure lower-level Third Reich functionary, showing role he played in destroying lives
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Berlin identity card dated October 1943 found by Ariana Neumann as a girl. It had a photo of her father Hans Neumann as a young man on it, but the name stated was Jan Šebesta. (Courtesy of Ariana Neumann)
February 10, 2020, 1:37 am
With clues from mysterious box, daughter solves puzzle of father’s WWII survival
In memoir ‘When Time Stopped,’ Ariana Neumann describes how investigating her father’s double life as a chemist for the Nazis helped her discover his identity — and her heritage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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