Travel & Culture
Visiting the Tunisian island of Djerba
By SAMIA HATHROUBI DJERBA, Tunisia (JTA) — El Ghriba, the venerable synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, is traditionally...
In the footsteps of Franz Kafka: exploring Czech Jewish life
The esteemed 20th century author Franz Kafka, a Jewish native of Prague, was honored with an outdoors sculpture, on a...
A visit to Jewish Prague and Budapest
Tourists flock to the Klausen Synagogue, one of the popular attractions that make up the Jewish Museum in Prague. Rather...
Rabbi Berel Pewzner on Jews of Grand Cayman
By MICHAEL A. APPLEMAN The Appleman family has vacationed in Grand Cayman (an hour from Miami) since 1982. We found...
A walk through Jewish Prague
by CARLA WALDEMAR When the Nazis rolled through Czechoslovakia in 1939, they murdered its Jews, as was their grisly practice....
Editorial: Vacanza in Italia
It was two weeks of sun, sea, mountains, palm trees, palazzos, piazzas, art galleries, wonderful food and wine: my vacanza...
Serendipity in Berlin
By JON STONE For as long as I can remember, one phrase above all others signaled the presence of spring:...
Scrap stories
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor “The Jew who visits the farmer and tries to buy the old...
The Jews of Cuba
By MICHAEL A. APPLEMAN, Ph.D Improved relations with Cuba are escalating. The Minnesota Orchestra has been to Cuba. President Barack...
Jamaica’s music and Jews
By ERIN ELLIOTT BRYAN / Community News Editor Christopher Columbus was shipwrecked in Jamaica for more than a year in...
