Prague

Engolement: Once you find your inner golem, life in the shtetl will never be the same - review

Life in the shtetl has been peaceful, but now things are changing. Now the golems face a fateful decision, caught between duty to the community and the urge to discover who else they might yet become

Setting up square.
THE COLORFUL and beautiful Jerusalem Synagogue.

Prague’s spires whisper Maharal’s hidden history

BEAUTIFUL PRAGUE along the Vltava River embraces Kafka as a global icon, even offering city tours by tricycle.

Kafka’s Bohemian rhapsody revived in Prague

 Kanye West attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

Kanye West concert in Prague scrapped as venue owner terminates contract - report


Be active in Bohemia

Bring your favorite sportswear with you. You can rent the rest on-site.

Mount Jestě ̌d rises above Liberec with a unique hotel and a television transmitter at its top.

The Hana Greenfield Memorial Swim

This annihilated Jewish community had a life and a history, and we wanted it to be remembered and not erased, remembered and not forgotten.

Murray and Hana Greenfield’s granddaughters Shirona and Daniela at the second annual swim in 2019

Paving stones in Prague tourist district were cut from Jewish gravestones

The discovery confirmed Jewish community suspicions that communist authorities in the 1980s used Jewish grave markers for building materials.

The medieval Charles Bridge in Prague

Prague's mayor under police protection due to 'risk on his life'

At least one Czech investigative outlet claimed that the protection was due to the mayor being the target of a Russian poisoning plot

Prague Mayor Zdenek Hrib signs the Pact of Free Cities at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, December 16, 2019.

Prague Jewish community fears for welfare aid for Holocaust survivors

The community is having to tap its reserves to pay for welfare services for Holocaust survivors that tourists usually help fund.

The Pinkas Synagogue in central Prague. The walls in the synagogue are overwritten with some 80,000 names of the Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust

'Einstein in Bohemia': A forgotten chapter for the famed scientist

In Einstein in Bohemia, Michael Gordin provides a meticulously researched, accessible, and fascinating portrait of Einstein, filtered “through the lens of his ties to Habsburg Prague.”

The medieval Charles Bridge in Prague

A Czech mate in Jewish Prague

Hoffberg advises spending three to four hours for the tour, to enable stops at all the vital destinations, of which there are many.

A synagogue in Prague

Prague will return pieces of Jewish gravestones used as cobblestones

The Czech Jewish community has called for the removal and return of the stones for years. Stones uncovered during future excavation work will be returned.

THE CLOCK with Hebrew letters and counterclockwise dial on the Jewish Town Hall in Prague, next to the  Old-New Synagogue, is a salient feature of the Jewish Quarter

My Word: From Jerusalem to a Prague summer and back

Throughout our short stay – a high school graduation present to my son, who turns 18 next month – two different pieces of music constantly came to mind.

THE CLOCK with Hebrew letters and counterclockwise dial on the Jewish Town Hall in Prague, next to the  Old-New Synagogue, is a salient feature of the Jewish Quarter

Hungary, Slovakia to establish diplomatic delegations in Jerusalem

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis made his first visit to Israel, as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia create greater inroads with the Jewish state.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš