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“Tomb stones of Prague’s Jewish Cemetery are covered by snow January 11, 2010, as the cold weather hit the Europe in recent days. ” DayLife.com

“Representatives of Jewish communities recently held peaceful protests in front of Malta’s embassies in Tel Aviv and Washington to urge the Maltese government to ensure there is no interference with human bones at the Jewish catacombs in Rabat. The Prime Minister has also received at least three letters of concern from US senators and a […]

“There are seven Jewish cemeteries in Vienna and 28 in Upper Austria, according to the Kultusgemeinde, the country’s biggest Jewish organization. The funding will initially restore 20 rundown cemeteries across the country, including those in Vienna’s Wahringer district and in the town of Deutsche Wagram, 23 kilometers (14 miles) northeast of the capital. The cemeteries […]

“Ethiopian Jewish community leaders or ‘Kessim’ recite prayers during the Sigd festival in Jerusalem on November 16, 2009. Sigd, the holiday of return and longing, is held 50 days after Yom Kippur. Prior to their immigration to Israel, the Jewish community in Ethiopia observed Sigd in their villages, praying to return to Jerusalem. Today, Sigd […]

“A group of Jewish rabbis and students from Jerusalem Yeshiva, view gravestones in an old Jewish cemetery in the town of Volozhin, 60 kms (37.5 miles) northwest of Minsk, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, during their two-day visit to Belarus. ” DayLife

” The bitter fight between rival factions of Satmar Hasidim took a dramatic turn Thursday when mourners hastily dedicated a new cemetery just outside Kiryas Joel to bury a 41-year-old man who died that morning. One side in the Satmar rift claims Kiryas Joel’s ruling faction refused to let Eziel Perlstein be buried in the […]

“Afghan children walk past a Jewish grave at a cemetery in Herat city June 8, 2009. The Yu Aw is one of four synagogues in the old quarter of Herat city in west Afghanistan, which after decades of abandonment and neglect, has been restored to provide desperately-needed space for an infant school. ” DayLife.com

photo: “A Jewish cemetery in Manama, Bahrain’s capital. King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has taken unprecedented steps for an Arab leader to demonstrate support for the nation’s Jewish population.”
In a Landscape of Tension, Bahrain Embraces Its Jews. All 36 of Them.
“In the tense landscape of the Middle East, there is little room left for […]

Photo: NYtimes” Rabbi Shmuel Plafker at a funeral service for Jeffrey Lynn Schneider at a plot owned by the Hebrew Free Burial Association on Staten Island. Mr. Schneider, 54, committed suicide a week ago in Midwood, Brooklyn. ”
“It was a perfect early spring day: acres of blue sky, the lightest of breezes moving past […]