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JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. HARD ROCK CAFÉ. VENICE/ITALY

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Sunday, Sivan 17, 5777. June 11, 2017. Shalom! World. Venice, the "city of canals," is stretched along 118 small islands in Northern Italy. The new Hard Rock Café Venice (Est. April 9, 2009) is located directly behind the main tourist attraction of the city and one of the world's most famous squares, St. Mark's Square, which is home to the ornately decorated St. Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace as well as a number of museums, shops, and cafés. Filled with Venetian Culture At more than 1,500 years old, Venice is filled with unique culture and history. Hard Rock Café, which is located in a historic building offering 360 square meters of space, incorporates an authentic Venetian style with tasteful decor, wide windows with panoramic views of the canal, and a handmade glass chandelier hanging in the center of the restaurant and was made right here in the famous Murano glass factory. Legendary Flavors in the Heart of Venice Arri...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. GORNERGRAT - SWITZERLAND

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Sunday, Sivan 10, 5777. June 4, 2017. Shalom! World. The Gornergrat (3,089) is one of those places that everyone should visit at least once in a lifetime. The mountain panorama and the glorious view  of  the Matterhorn are unforgettable. With its sunny observation platform accessible all year, the Gornergrat, at na altitude of 3,089 m, has been one of Switzerland's top excursion destinations since 1898. The Gornergrat Bahn was the world's first fully electrified cog railway. Today it is a modern, eco-friendly railway, equipped with a regenerative braking system that regerates electricity on the descent and so save energy. Cog railway to the sky Europe's highest open-air cog railway brings passengers direct from Zermatt station (1,620m) to the summit of the Gornergrat, 365 days a year.  The ride takes 33 minutes and requires a vertical climb of 1,469m. The line leads over dramatic bridges, though galleries and tunnels, across ...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. CHARLOTTE MENORA. WARSZAWA/POLAND

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Grzybowski Square Thrusday 7, 5777.  June 1, 2017. Shavuot 2nd day. Shalom! World. Savior Square Chalotte Menora is the second Charlotte store in Warszawa, opened on February 29 at Grzybowski Square in place of Menor's former restaurant. As in Charlotte at the Savior's Square, bread is baked in place, but there are also Jewish bread such as bagels, chopsticks or rye breads. The menu of cafés appeared Jewish cuisine such as cymes Charlotte (marinated, carrot, coriander, dates, nutes), caviar juif (goat's cheese, goose liver, egg, onion, beetroot), pudding with chopsticks or blintzes (White cheese, Orange peel, cream, rose water). Important Jewish holidays will be prepared in addition to special dishes. The área is increasingly flourishing cullinary - in the neighborhood is also the restaurant Strefa, Glasses on Prózna, Nowa Prózna and Cosmos. Shalom! Aleichem. Cultural Support:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association ...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. THE JEWISH NÜREMBERG/GERMANY

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The Former Synagogue Memorial - Nurenberg/Germany Sunday, Sivan 3, 5777. May 28, 2017. Shalom! World. Nuremberg, city in Bavaria, Germany. A report of 1146 c.e. records that many Jews from Rhenish towns fled to Nuremberg, but Jews are first mentioned in the city in 1182. By the 13th century a large number of Jews were resident there. In reply to an enquiry from Weissenburg in 1288, the mayor and council of Nuremberg pointed out tje laws then governing Jewish moneylending in the city. The memorbuch ascribe to Nuremberg by S. Salfeld would prove that a Synagogue was consencrated there in 1296. Two years later, 728 Jews were victims of the Rindfleisch persecutions, among them Mordecai b. Hillel, author of the Mordekhai. Jews are mentioned in Nuremberg again in 1303. In 1313 Henry VII allowed the Schultheiss ("mayor") to admitmore Jews and granted him their protection dues. However, two years later King Louis IV of Bavaria (1314-47) allowed the council to demolish th...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. MINISTERSTWO KAWI. WARSZAWA/POLAND

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Wednesday, Iyar 28, 5777. May 24, 2017. Shalom! World. Ministerstwo Kawy is situated at Ulica Marszalkowska 27, Warszawa, Poland. You should must be excited to visited to visit Ministerstwo Kawy, 'cause is one of the best Café in Warszawa. Get the tram and stop at Pl. Zbawiciela and you saw plenty of Cafés around but the MK gets the large Windows in a corner of the building. The coffe bar with its entire choice of food, coffe and bubbles. The Ministerstwo Kawy occupies the ground floor of a large apartment block and share na entrance with na upmarket shoe store. As you get inside the first thing you see is the colourful coffe bean bags that is adorning the grinders. MK uses exclusive Espresso roasts by Koppi Coffe from Stockholm but they also have changing filter roasts by diferente international roasters. Quality coffe experience Ministerstwo Kawy Café that offers a cappuccino take on every morning for a throng of local...

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. EINSTEIN KAFFEE AU JARDIN. BERN/SWITZERLAND

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Sunday, Iyar 25, 5777. May 21, 2017. Einstein au Jardin. Münsterplattaform 4, Bern/Switzerland Shalom! World. The tastes are diferente, we know that. And also the needs changes with the times of the day. The Einstein au Jardin in the Garden or  better the plattaform before Berner Münster offers something for everyone. Not too much and not too little, always fresh and unconventional. The staff is fantastic. Will be surprised during her visit. And then the shots talks much more than a thousand words. Shalom! Aleichem. Suporte cultural:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz.

JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. SARAH SCHENIRER - BAIS YAAKOV - KRAKOW/POLAND

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Sarah Schenirer tomb - Memorial. Konzentrationslager Plaszow. Krakow/Poland Thursday, Iyar 22, 5777. May 18, 2017 Shalom! World.  Sarah Schenirer Sarah Schenirer was born in Krakow, Poland on July 15, 1883 to Bezalel Schenirer (born in Tarnow) and Reizel. In her memoirs, she describes herself as the unassuming and withdrawn daughter of Belzer Hasidic parents. She was intelligent and had a strong desire to learn. She attended school until the age of thirteen, but could not continue because her familly was poor. She became a seamstress. When one client was unusually particular about the measurements of her dress, Schenirer wrote in her diary: "People are such perfectionists when it comes to clothing their bodies. Are they so particular when they address themselves to the need of their soul?" Founded by Sarah Schenirer as a way of combating assimilation among her contemporaries. Bais Yaakov is an Orthodox Jewish educational movement for girls and young women ...