My husband and I chose Prague over Greece because it wasn ... We then went to the Pinkus Synagogue, which also turned out to be a kind of museum. Except that there were no shelves or glass ...

When on April 5 th, First Lady Michelle Obama visited Prague’s Pinkas Synagogue with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod, a senior White House advisor, she expressed ...

Some portray the sadness of leaving Prague behind. But none reveal the horrors that were to lie ahead. The drawings now hang on the walls of the second floor of the Pinkas Synagogue. They are the ...

Prague’s Pinkas Synagogue, which was seriously damaged by flooding a year ago, could reopen to visitors in October. Leo Pavlat, director of the Jewish Museum in Prague, told JTA that work will ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Prague’s Jewish Museum has ... II are being projected on the outer wall of a Jewish bath at the Pinkas Synagogue after it gets dark. The synagogue’s inside walls bear the ...

Back in Prague, work goes on to restore the Pinkas Synagogue, the only Jewish site that remains closed since the flood. Pavlat said he hopes the synagogue will re-open in October. After that ...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic–As the Czech capital ... Other structures like the Pinkas synagogue, built in 1535, have cracked walls, while the 15th Century Jewish cemetery, with about 12,000 ...

The Pinkas Synagogue in central Prague. The walls in the synagogue are overwritten with some 80,000 names of the Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust (photo credit: REUTERS) With ticket sales to ...

“Prague is an encyclopaedia of European architectural ... Other places of worship in the area have been repurposed. Of these, the Pinkas Synagogue provides a thoroughly haunting gut-punch.

I stood in Pinkas Synagogue in Prague, which the city’s remaining Jewish population transformed into a Holocaust memorial in the 1950s. I had just spent minutes taking photos of the building’s ...

FILE - Tourists visit the Pinkas synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. Antisemitic incidents in the Czech Republic sharply increased last year, with their peak appearing in ...