(JTA) — Before the start of Yom Kippur, a flood of historic proportions swallowed Boulder, Colo., and surrounding areas, displacing families, damaging synagogues and threatening services on the holiest day of the Jewish year – until determination came to the rescue. Orthodox Boulder Aish Kodesh hit the Internet first, sending a mass email to 500…
Some 300 worshipers attended Yom Kippur services in the lobby of the Chabad on Campus center in flooded Boulder, Colo. The lobby of the synagogue building is above the flood line, according to Chabad.org, which reported Sunday on the services. Rabbi Yisroel Wilhem, co-director of Chabad of the University of Colorado, said many were unable…
How do you make the world’s tallest kosher sandwich? The Jewish community in Budapest decided it was high time to find out. When Andras Borgula started planning the Budapest’s sixth annual Judafest, a cultural street fair celebrating Jewish life in Hungary held June 9, he had an ambitious thought: Why not set some kind of…
The Jewish Museum in Prague has reopened its doors after closing for a short time to prepare for raging floods roaring toward the Czech capital. “We cleared out the basement of books and other artifacts which could be damaged in case of a flood,” Museum Director Leo Pavlat said. The museum was closed Monday to…
Just a few days after the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial complex was closed in an effort to save its Holocaust archives from heavy flash flooding in southern Poland, the site has been partially reopened, according to the Associated Press. Heavy rainfall has wreaked havoc across central Europe in recent days, causing rivers to burst, flooding many provincial…
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