Dortmund’s only Jewish mayor died in poverty after a successful career. The city is reviving his story. Paul Hirsch helped establish the formal borders of Berlin and Dortmund before the Nazis came to power, but his name is not widely known.
Leader of Lebanon’s tiny Jewish community dies at 80 Isaac Arazi oversaw the restoration of Beirut’s Magen Avraham synagogue.
A historic synagogue creates tension between Egypt’s few remaining Jews and their government Egypt’s last Jews held their first event in the restored synagogue after being shunned by the country’s antiquities ministry months earlier.