Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco

9 February 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, California is one of the three oldest Jewish congregations in California, and one of the largest Jewish congregations in the United States. A member of the Union for Reform Judaism, Congregation Emanu-El is a significant gathering place for the Bay Area Jewish community.   read more…

Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson

16 January 2026 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Beth Israel Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 5315 Old Canton Road in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Organized in 1860 by Jews of German background, it is the only Jewish synagogue in Jackson. Beth Israel built the first synagogue in Mississippi in 1867, and, after it burned down, its 1874 replacement was at one time the oldest religious building in Jackson.   read more…

Yeshivah Centre in Sydney

18 December 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

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The Yeshiva College, also known as the Harry O. Triguboff Centre, is a Hasidic Jewish synagogue, learning centre, and library of the Chabad-Lubavitch nusach, located at 36 Flood Street, in the Sydney suburb of Bondi, New South Wales, Australia. The Centre runs various adult and child-based educational programs.   read more…

Potsdam Synagogue Center

9 November 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  9 minutes

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The Potsdam Synagogue Center is a building in Potsdam‘s city center for the local Jewish community. It is located at Schloßstraße 8, opposite the Film Museum. Following the Small Synagogue of the European Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam’s New Palace, which opened in August 2021, this is the second new Jewish house of worship in Brandenburg’s state capital since the Shoah.   read more…

Orthodox Synagogue in Prešov

30 September 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  3 minutes

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The Orthodox Synagogue in Prešov, an eastern Slovak city in the Prešov District, was built in 1897/98. The synagogue at Okružná Street 32 ??is a protected cultural monument. It is located in a complex in the city center that also includes the former Klaus Synagogue, the former rabbi’s house, a former yeshiva, a former slaughterhouse, a former kosher butcher shop, and the former administrator’s residence.   read more…

Old Synagogue in Erfurt

9 September 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Museums, Exhibitions, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  6 minutes

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The Old Synagogue (German: Alte Synagoge) is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany.   read more…

Great Synagogue of Marseille

2 August 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  3 minutes

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The Great Synagogue of Marseille (French: Grande synagogue de Marseille) is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Rue Breteuil in the 6th arrondissement of Marseille, France. The building was listed as a monument historique in 2007. The congregation worships in the Sephardi rite.   read more…

East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation in Australia

7 July 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

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The East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation (Hebrew: Mickva Yisrael), also known as East Melbourne Shule, East Melbourne Synagogue, Melbourne City Synagogue or City of Melbourne Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and historically significant synagogue, located in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The synagogue, consecrated in 1877, is the oldest in Melbourne.   read more…

Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem

30 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Union for the Mediterranean Reading Time:  4 minutes

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The Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue (Ashkenazi Hebrew: Tiferes Yisroel), most often spelled Tiferet Israel, also known as the Nisan Bak Shul, after its co-founder, Nisan Bak, is a former prominent Hasidic Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Designed by Nisan Bak, the former synagogue was completed in 1872 and partially destroyed in 1948.   read more…

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