Synagogue
SYNAGOGUE. The origins of the synagogue are obscure and will probably never be known. This is in part because the synagogue developed in a nonrevolutionary manner, its significance recognize...
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The only synagogue ever designed by Frank Lloyd Wright has been designated a National Historic Landmark.Beth Sholom, a soaring glass-and-concrete temple just outside Philadelphia, began welcoming w...
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Shanghai has started restoration work on one of its two remaining synagogues as part of China's effort to revive Jewish heritage in a city that provided refuge to tens of thousands of Jews during W...
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Germany's largest synagogue, featuring golden mosaic tiles and a star-spangled blue dome, reopened Friday after more than a year of renovations to restore its beauty following decades of neglect.Ra...
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Werner Bab remembers going with his father to Berlin's Rykestrasse Synagogue in the 1930s, soon after the Nazis came to power _ a time, he says, when all the talk among the Jews at Sabbath services...
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Jewish leaders and politicians from Estonia and Israel celebrated the opening of the Baltic country's first and only synagogue Wednesday, six decades after previous houses of worship were destroyed...
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Just in time for the Jewish high holidays, two lifetime front-row seats to services at a synagogue here are being auctioned off on eBay. The bidding starts at $1.8 million.Besides getting to schmoo...
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A small plane crashed into the side of a synagogue Wednesday night, killing the pilot, witnesses said.About a dozen people were inside Congregation Children of Israel's Walton Way Temple cooking a ...
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A synagogue of ultra-Orthodox Jews was destroyed by fire on the eve of Passover, raising suspicions Monday that the blaze was deliberately set to target members who participated in an Iranian-led c...
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Dinner was over by the time the party's honored guest showed up at the table. She didn't speak a word. And she left in the rabbi's arms.The visitor to this family home was no lady. It was a torah.M...
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