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
The fifth edition of Limud Helsinki took place on 1-2 February 2020. Limud is a celebration of Jewish culture, creativity and learning like no other. It is based on the idea that everyone should be a student and anyone can be a teacher. Limud is a
In August 2020, Post Bellum civic association, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to gathering stories of people who were oppressed under totalitarian regimes, organised a weekly memorial expedition entitled "Following the traces of hidden children". The memorial expedition followed the steps of Pavel Eli Vago and
The Baltic Jewish Network (BJN) is an initiative of local young Jewish professionals in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia who have identified the need for connecting Jewish professionals and entrepreneurs in a common platform where they can exchange ideas and build partnerships. BJN brings together the concepts
