The Czech capital of Prague, once a center of thriving Jewish life, still boasts numerous synagogues, many of which now serve as museums commemorating a Jewish community that has largely disappeared.

October 16, 200 - What's so Jewish about Jewish art? By Lauren Gelfond Feldinger - It could be a science fiction segment in the spirit of Star Trek but with a twist of gematria, the kabalistic analysis of Hebrew letters. A very abstract, massive and three-dimensional hai - spelled by the letters het and yud - has seemingly landed from space on a historic metropolitan structure. What does this merging of traditional and modern, memorial and forward-looking, and Jewish and general mean?

This museum is situated in the historic Marais district in one of the finest private mansions in Paris. It retraces the development of Jewish communities through their cultural heritage and traditions...