And ancient synagogues can be tourist draws, especially for smaller towns that lack them. Uncovering the synagogue “would put our town on the world map, alongside cities such as Seville,” said ...

(JTA) — The remains of an ancient synagogue dating back as far as the 7th century have been discovered in a resort town on Turkey’s mediterranean coast. The synagogue was found recently in the ...

I n the Jobar suburb of Damascus, the ancient Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, one of the world's oldest, stands partially in ruins after years of civil war. Recently, some of Syria's small Jewish ...

Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

and for his work on ancient synagogues. Paul Flesher earned his B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Rochester in 1979, a Masters in Philosophy in Judaism in Late Antiquity from Oxford ...