The Museum at Eldridge Street, a Lower East Side synagogue that was built in 1887 and holds National Historic Landmark status, recently underwent a quarter-century-long renovation, which culminated ...

Why should a 21st-century synagogue look any different from an 18th-century one? After all, the structure of the service and many of the prayers are the same, one might argue. But as modern life has ...

Synagogues existing in Poland as far back as the year 7203, more than 1,700 years ago, according to Professor George Lukomski, instructor in architecture, whose drawings of early Polish synagogues ...

A provocative interpretation of the art and architecture of a pre-modern wooden synagogue illuminates the social, historical and religious context of an Eastern-European Jewish community Thomas C.

Envisioned by Pietro Belluschi, Temple B’rith Kodesh in Rochester, New York, was published in RECORD in November, 1963, a ...

Rem Koolhaas is the cerebral Dutch architect who -- with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA -- has spent several decades dazzling the world with provocative ideas and buildings. LA, ...

As the Hebrew new year 5761 dawns, synagogues around the world fill with Jews celebrating the High Holy Days. For observant Jews, it's a time of atonement, festivity, ancient history and the mystery ...

The Synagogue: A house of prayer, study and assembly - Synagogue and ancient temple - A house of the people instead of a house of God - Worship by prayer and not sacrifice - Instruction and debate ...

Piechotka and her late husband, who were not Jewish, also fought in the resistance during World War II. (JTA) — Polish architects Maria Piechotka and her late husband recognized the significance of ...

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