Event Category: MAIN
In honor of the Arad Jews
On National Minority Day students from several high schools have discovered the traditions and values of Judaism. On December 18, the „Nicolae Cajal” Jewish Studies Center, the “Vasile Goldiş” Western University, the Arad Museum and the Arad Jewish Community organized a cultural event on the occasion of the National Minorities Day, adopted by the Chamber […]
Keep readingIN MEMORIAM!
Prof. Dr. Francisc Schneider MD, PhD, DHC He was born on July 27, 1933 in Timişoara, where he attended primary school and high school (1940-1951) and then the Faculty of Medicine (1951-1957). Between 1957 and 1960 he was a physician at Certeze-Negreşti Oaş, where he, over the years, became an Honorary Citizen of the commune. […]
Keep readingThe community of Arad celebrated the trees
The Jews from Arad celebrated Rosh HaShanah La’Ilanot, on the last day of January, that is, the New Year of the Tree. Judaism, a religion and a culture oriented towards making a better world, also has an ecological specificity. Thus, every year, during this period, Jews from all corners of the world rejoice at Tu […]
Keep readingHolocaust Remembrance
The National Holocaust Remembrance Day was marked at both the Old Jewish Cemetery and at the “Vasile Goldiş” Western University Arad The Rabbi, priests of the denominations in Arad, members of the Jewish community, university professors, pupils, students, teachers and other people who wished to pay tribute to the memory of the Holocaust victims were present […]
Keep readingThe festival of light celebrated through music
Hanukah is a remembrance of the victory of the Maccabees over a larger Syrian army and a miracle that made the oil supply for Menora in the Temple of Jerusalem to last 8 days instead of one. Named the feast of light, it reminds us of the victory of good over evil, being a leitmotif on the […]
Keep readingThe feast of joy with knights and fairies
“These Jews are constantly celebrating,” that’s how every festivity presented by Ionel Schlesinger, the president of the Jewish community in Arad, begins, a moment that provokes many laughs. This time, the Jews from Arad gathered together, young and old, on the second day of March for a celebration as if from books of stories with […]
Keep readingA Seder with delicacies for the Jews in Arad
Only a few days have elapsed since the end of Purim (the feast of joy and the very beautifully dressed up children), and we entered Pesach, the celebration of liberation from Egyptian slavery, an arduous process, with the vehement opposition of the pharaoh, and hence the many obstacles over which the Jews have gone through […]
Keep readingYom Haatzmaut celebrated with pita and falafel
Yom Haatzmaut celebrated with pita and falafel Romanians of Jewish ethnicity The Romanian state celebrates this year a relevant historical moment in the existence of a country. The Centenary of the Great Union gives us the opportunity to remember the people who have built over the past 100 years, and long before, everything that […]
Keep readingNew collaborations at the neologue synagogue
The Arad State Philharmonic, together with the Jewish community from the city on Mureş, bring the opportunity of unprecedented initiatives in which the synagogue organ is raised to its true value in order to delight Arad´s citizens. This endeavor was accomplished by Doru Orban, the director of the Arad Philharmonic, together with his team of […]
Keep readingChamber Orchestra concert at the neologue synagogue
Just a week away from the first one, our synagogue hosted the second concert in a series of events organized by the Arad State Philharmonic together with the Jewish Community of Arad (JCA). The fruitful collaboration is due to the return to our city of a daughter of Arad, who left the city right after […]
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