Synagogue

Turkey has condemned a shooting rampage that killed two people on Oct. 9 near a synagogue in eastern Germany.

The late 19th-century synagogue in the northwestern Bulgarian town of Vidin will be brought back to life with a cash injection of around 5 million euros from a combination of EU financial instruments, Bulgarian Regional Development Ministry announced on Thursday.

An unknown man broke the windows of the Sofia Synagogue with stones, Nova TV reported. Apart from vandalism, temple staff are indignant at it happening in broad daylight and footage showing that no passer-by intervened to try to stop the perpetrator. He is not yet detained.

"When we returned, we had no bed to sleep in, no pots to cook in, nor clothes to wear. We went to our house and it had been taken by others. We rented a room in our house and the whole family lived there."

Jewish artifacts, including ancient parchment torahs from one of the world's oldest synagogues, have gone missing from the Syrian capital amid the tumult of ongoing civil war, with some precious items reportedly surfacing abroad. 

At a meeting with Serbia's President in Subotica, northern Serbia, to attend the reopening of the city's magnificent Art Nouveau synagogue, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his government had set aside around 32 million euros to restore ruined synagogues elsewhere around Europe.

The Memorial Church of the Holy Spirit atop the 571-metre Javorca hill in the north-west is Slovenia's second item on the list after the clandestine WWII hospital museum Franja won the label in 2015.

An historic synagogue in Istanbul has reopened with a morning prayer performed for the first time in 65 years - another significant step for Turkey's Jewish community.

A Tefilah, a prayer performed three times per day, was performed early on Jan. 8 in the ??tipol Synagogue in Balat, a neighborhood on Istanbul's European side on the shores of the Golden Horn, daily Vatan reported.

The historic synagogue in Turkey's northwestern city of Edirne hosted a concert featuring pieces from Jewish composers on Oct. 18.

Turkey's Jewish community leader Silviyo Ovedya addressed the audience before the concert, saying they had come to Edirne in honor of the European Day of Jewish Culture, which is usually marked in Istanbul. 

Turkey?s Jewish Community welcomed 700 people on June 21 for a fast-breaking iftar meal in the northwestern province of Edirne, expressing appreciation for the recent restoration of the historical Edirne Synagogue by the Directorate General of Foundations.