The Synagogue of Carpentras, which this year is celebrating its 650th anniversary, has a Baroque-style interior and a gold-ornamented hall with a blue domed ceiling. The rabbi’s pulpit is ...

The centre of the main hall would certainly be occupied by a bimah – a tradition that dated back to the Mediaeval Sephardic philosopher Maimonides (1135-1204) and which came to define the interior of ...

the latter being fascinated by the synagogue interior. But another fun section has stolen the show: the “Idishometer,” a quiz on Yiddish words and their Spanish translations. This reporter ...

For more spectacular sights, visit Łęczna, with its 17th-century Great Synagogue; with a recently renovated interior, it also features a collection of Judaica. Dating from 1761, the baroque Łańcut ...