Vyšehrad, Prague's legendary hilltop fortress, offers visitors far more than stunning views and ancient monuments. Beneath its walls lies a lesser-known historical marvel—the Vyšehrad Casemates, an ...

If you're traveling in the Czech Republic south of Prague, you may have the famously cute town of Český Krumlov on your itinerary. While it’s delightful, two nearby towns – straddling the regions of ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

The monuments include the Kahal Synagogue, Asilah's historic Jewish cemetery, and a mikveh (ritual bath) and oven attached to the synagogue. The Kahal Synagogue was built in 1824 but remained ...

The Jewish cemetery in the ghetto will be closed shortly, the Nazi authorities informed the Council. The closing of the cemetery and the order for the establishment of a crematorium is ...

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Open for visitors and mourners Sunday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed on Saturdays and Jewish and federal holidays. Accessible through the front gate of the historic Mountain View Cemetery at ...

L.B.B., a New Jersey intermediate appellate court case: [T]he plaintiff husband and defendant wife were getting divorced, and the wife claimed that the husband wasn't giving her a Jewish religious ...

Indian Grandmasters R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram have emerged as the joint leaders at the 7th Prague International Chess Festival 2025 Masters after four rounds. Praggnanandhaa secured ...

And there is a nice mix of Jewish stories among this year’s nominees. The most notable is “The Brutalist,” a massive concrete slab of a movie from director and co-writer Brady Corbet.

This is Warsaw’s main Jewish cemetery and one of the largest in Europe, a sprawling forest of 83 acres and the final resting place of some 200,000 Jews. Since 1806, the cemetery has held ...