Israeli police are investigating threats to hurt the rabbi in charge of Jerusalem’s Western Wall if he does not allow a Jewish women’s prayer group equal worship rights at the holy site, a police spokesman said on Monday. Micky Rosenfeld said that Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch received the letters late last week. An Israeli television station…
Contemporary Skopje is a slightly strange place. The nationalistic Macedonian government has been throwing money at the capital city in an attempt at beautification, since 80% of Skopje was destroyed by an earthquake in 1963 and had been refashioned in the communistic style with wide avenues and high-rise concrete apartment blocks. The new chosen style,…
There is no longer a Jewish community in Pristina, the capital of the newly independent country of Kosovo. Through flight, deportation, aliyah, and intermarriage, Jewish Pristina has over the past seventy years gradually diminished into non-existence. During the era when Kosovo formed part of Yugoslavia, the government in Belgrade did not do much to discourage…
Some still recall the roar of caged lions punctuating the long nights during the siege of Sarajevo. Like the bears and other big cats, they starved to death after the zookeepers who risked their lives to feed them were killed or wounded in the bombardment by Bosnian Serb forces in the first months of the…
Limmud opened its first-ever Jewish identity conference in Macedonia, drawing participants from other former Yugoslavian countries. The Nov. 1 opening brought together a crowd of 500 Jews, twice Macedonia’s estimated Jewish population of 250, according to Dina Sosberger, who organized the four-day conference for Limmud Keshet-XU, which holds conferences in the former Yugoslavia as part…
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