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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, like Juneau ... The second-oldest synagogue, the Pinkas synagogue dating from 1535, has been turned into a memorial for Shoah (Holocaust) victims from Bohemia and Moravia.

“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.

the Klausen Synagogue is the largest synagogue in Prague’s Jewish Quarter and once served as a central hub of Jewish life. It’s known as the home of several prominent rabbis and thinkers ...