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Thursday, 22 Tammuz, 5776. July 28, 2016. Shalom! World. Trebic/Czech Republic. The Renaissance Painted (Franciscan) House was built at he end of the 16th century by a venetian merchant Francesco Callipardi who established a shop with colonial goods there. The original sgraffito decoration was covered by ume paint by late owners. It was restored again in 1903 by Josef Kozlansky, a grammar school teacher in Trebic.  In the 1980s, the dilapdated house underwent was exigent restoration. The inner vaulting was reconstructed as well as the grand pillars, inner terrace with arcades, atrium and many rooms. Today the ground floor functions as an art gallery and the first floor is used for wedding ceremonies. Shalom! Aleichem. Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz.

Sunday, Tammuz 11, 5776. July 17, 2016. Shalom! World. About one half mile from Lengnau, in the direction of Endingen, is the old Jewish cemetery. It is recognized by a cluster of trees, on the right side of the road, and is surrounded by a stone wall. During the first years of settlement in Lengnau, the Jews were forbidden to bury their dead in Switzerland. As the only place in Switzerland where Jews were allowed to settle from the 17th to the 19th centuries, they had to travel north to the Rhine River, and bury their dead on an island in the middle of the river, known as Juden Insle , Jews' Island. Endingen-Lengnau - Verein fuer Erhaltung der Synagogen und des Friedhofs Endingen-Lengnau (The Association for the Preservation of the Synagogues and the Cemetery of - ) published a complete register of the burial sites, with name index and arranged by dates, supplemented by a volume of narrative which includes,among other documents and photographs, a facsim

Thursday, Tammuz 8, 5776, July 14, 2016. Shalom! World.  The Kaiserburg (Imperial Castle) is the city's landmark and place of origin. Passing through the Vestner Gate from the north or up the street way its "Heaven's Gate" from the city side, we proceed first to the highest point within the precincts, the inner courtyard. Here, we find ourselves in the center of the most heavily fortified part of the building, the Kaiserburg. This is where the Emperor Heinrich III built the first fortress on the center section of these preciptous crags before 1050 in order to secure crown lands. Since the medieval Holy Roman Empire had no capital, the rulers and their entourage traveled form oone palatinate to the next and held their Imperial Diets nas trials. A castellan was appointed  in Nüremberg to conduct the emperor's business and safeguard his interests. These offcials are first mentioned in 1107, when the brothers Konrad and Göttfried von Raabs (Lowe

Monday, Tammuz 5, 5776. July 11, 2016. Shalom! World. Untitled by Halina Poswiatwska I'm Juliet I am 23 I once touched love it had the bitter taste of black coffee it quickened my heartbeat crazed my living body rockeded my senses it left, I'm Juliet high up on a balcony suspended I cry come back I call come back bitting my lips I draw blood it hasn't come back, I'm Juliet a thousand years old alive. Shalom! Aleichem. Suporte cultural:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz.

Moses Mendelssohn Thursday, Tammuz 1, 5776. July 7, 2016. Shalom! World. Moses Mendelssohn and the Jewish religion. Mendelssohn is rightfully considered the founder of modern Jewish thought. He invents the modern idea that Judaism is a religion. Yet his argument is fraught with the fundamental tension that would and still does define much of modern Jewish thought: religion is a modern German Protestant category that Judaism does not quite fit into. Protestant notion simply as the view that religion denotes a sphere of life separate and distinct from all others, and that this sphere is largely private and not public, voluntary and not compulsory.  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Mendelssohn, friend of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. The Grosse Hamburguer Strasse cemetery today in the former East Berlin, one will see a reerected headstone marking Mendelssohn's grave - the only gravestone standig since the Nazis destroyed the rest of the cemetery's headston

Yom Shishi. Friday, 25 Sivan, 5776. July 1, 2016. Shalom! World. The Jewish Cemetery in Cesky Krumlov is located 900mts NE of the square in Hrbitovni ulici, adjacento to the town cemetery. Established in 1891, the unlandemarked cemetery  is surrounded by a nearly 3 meters high brick wall with entrance gates forged with Star of David motif. The about 100 tombstones visible date from the establishment of the cemetery in the  first half of 20th century. In 1937 Rabbi Prof. Dr. Leopold Hirsch was buried there. The latest tombstone is from 1993. The 1893 cerimonial hall preserves the reading desk. Currently ongoing maintenance should continue in the future as well  as complete reconstruction of the cerimonial hall, damaged  sections of wall and reestablishment of toppled tombstones form the 19th centuryand early 20th century.  The registers noted that the last burial took place in 1967, but we found a gravestone marked 1993.  Shalom! Aleichem. Cultural Supp