Jewish culture

Sofia. The school year for 7th grade will be extended by two weeks, said Deputy Minister of Education and Science Tanya Mihaylova in an interview with Focus News Agency. This will give pupils more time for learning, exercises and preparation, she explained.

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece on Friday issued an announcement decrying the desecration on Wednesday night of the Holocaust Memorial in Thessaloniki.

A new Jewish museum in Cyprus aims to be a bridge-builder to the Arab world and beyond, a place where visitors who may never set foot in Israel can learn about the Jewish faith, the Holocaust and the tumultuous beginnings of the Jewish state.

An internal report written by French intelligence, parts of which were published in the daily newspaper Le Monde on Sunday, reveal efforts by the Mossad to develop relationships with French spies, “to the point of crossing the line of turning them into double agents.”

The Jewish Museum of Greece is in a pretty, salmon-colored neoclassical building with gray shutters on Nikis Street, which links Syntagma Square and Plaka in central Athens. I had passed it many times without entering. I finally did so to see the exhibition "FORM/Less" by young artist Maria Fragoudaki. "I was invited by Saranna Biel-Cohen, an American curator who works with the museum.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is hosting two days of world jazz music concerts on Saturday, October 8, and Sunday, October 9. Taking part in the event are artists and ensembles including Savina Yannatou (photo) and Primavera en Salonico, Klezmer Yunan, the Takis Barberis Group and sax soloist David Lynch, as well as Dimitris Vasilakis and Nana Simopoulos.

An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy ever found of an Old Testament Bible scripture, researchers said Sept. 21.

During the relatively calm days of Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), an unpleasant incident made Turkey's breaking news. A young woman, working as a nurse in an Istanbul hospital, was physically attacked in a public bus merely because she was wearing shorts. The attacker, who denounced her supposedly immodest dress, yelled at her, called her a "devil," and then kicked her in the face.

Ladino music interpreter Yasmin Levy will be once again in Istanbul for a performance as part of the Good Music in Town Concerts series organized by IEG Live and Piu Entertainment on May 5 at Zorlu Center PSM. 

A hundred artworks created by Jewish artists during the Holocaust are going on show in Berlin - the first time the collection from the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem has been displayed outside Israel.