Some days before Yom Kippur, the boys of the Bar Mitzvah Club in Montenegro got ready to celebrate the highest Jewish holiday by learning how to manufacture a Shofar. The blowing of the shofar at the conclusion of Yom Kippur is the culmination of a day
The Limmud Czech Republic 2022, a residential learning and community event, was held in Prague between 25-29 May 2022. This year, the program offered a wide variety of activities for adults and children featuring lectures, workshops, discussions, discos (both for kids and adults), sports activities, Torah
Thanks to the funding of EJF, Ukrainian Jewish children were hosted by the Polish organisation "Wspolnota Drzewo Oliwne" this summer. Most of the children came from Kharkiv, the capital of an eastern region of Ukraine. In the Summer Camp, Wspolnota Drzewo Oliwneable was able to give
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup, which resulted in the arrest of 13,152 Jews in Paris and its inner suburbs, the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) asked Luigi Toscano to photograph Holocaust survivors. Some 40 portraits of French
The 7th Centropa Jewish Network student competition, one of the most successful programs of CJN, announced the winners during an online awards ceremony on May 25 2022. This year 66 students participated with the assistance of 15 teachers. By involving these teachers actively in accomplishing student
The Centropa Jewish Network (CJN), a professional development network for Jewish school educators in Europe, held a three-day professional development seminar in Berlin between 20-22 March 2022. The seminar brought together 27 educators from 10 European countries with the aim to deepen participant’s knowledge of
This year, forty-three young girls of Bat Mitzvah age, who had attended the Annette Bat Mitzvah Club course for one year, participated in the 15th Collective Bat Mitzvah ceremony. The event took place on 29th May 2022 in Neve Shalom Synagogue with the help of
The Turkish Jewish community conducted the Bar Mitzva Club's first-year-end ceremony at the Neve Shalom Synagogue with the attendance of 42 boys and their families, including rabies and community leaders. The Bar Mitzvah Club was established by the Turkish Jewish community's Education Department in 2003. It
Hundreds of runners and walkers took part in the Testimonial Race for Remembrance, Run for Memory, organized by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities in collaboration with the Jewish communities of Vercelli, Biella and Novara. “We are here to say ‘never again’. Remembering serves to
The Jewish Community of Armenia held a festive concert dedicated to its 30th anniversary. The event took place in the State Russian Drama Theatre named after K. Stanislavsky in Yerevan on 26th October 2021 with the help of the grant from European Jewish Fund. The concert
