Statue of Liberty

#OnThisDay, June 17, 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived at its permanent home in New York Harbor. But did you know that Emma Lazarus, the American poet whose famous words are inscribed on its pedestal, was Jewish? Lazarus was born in 1849 to a large Sephardic family in New York […]

Spanish Synagogue

#ShabbatShalom from The Spanish Synagogue in Prague, known as one of the most beautiful synagogues in Europe. Photo: Noam Chen – Photographer | נועם חן – צלם