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

|ByYAEL UNTERMAN
Setting up square.
THE COLORFUL and beautiful Jerusalem Synagogue.

Prague’s spires whisper Maharal’s hidden history

Europe’s safe sanctuary lets visitors explore timeless history that waits behind Josefov’s heavy doors.

|ByJACOB MAOR
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

Once caught between Czech, German and Jewish identities, Franz Kafka has become a symbol of modern Prague, inspiring public art, tourism and a renewed embrace of his legacy.

|ByMOTTI VERSES
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

Additional concerts, including ones planned for Poland, Italy, and other countries, have also been canceled in the recent past.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Deri tours one of Europe's oldest synagogues on official visit to Prague

Deri is scheduled to visit interior ministers from the Czech Republic and Hungary as well as other Jewish institutions.

JANUARY 10, 2019ByYVETTE J. DEANE
Deri tours one of Europe's oldest synagogues on an official visit to Prague.

Czech city festival features skit mocking Jews

"I will get this money from you one way or another,” the Jewish character said in the skit.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018ByJTA
Irish Jew Raphael Siev who is part of Ireland's dwindling Jewish community is seen reading a book in this photo taken on March 2, 2003

Golden Prague is as serene as the Moldau River

About a half million tourists, predominantly non-Jewish, each year tour the Jewish Quarter, or Josefov, as it is called.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018By BEN G. FRANK
The Charles bridge in Prague

Middle Israel: The Prague Spring at 50, a status report

Freedom’s victory was inspiring, but tyranny – cunning, brazen and techy – is back on the attack.

AUGUST 23, 2018ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
People stand near a Soviet-made military vehicle as they watch a documentary on the Soviet Union-led occupation by the Warsaw Pact armies to halt former Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek's Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms in then Czechoslovakia, broadcasted on a disp

The girl from Prague

"You were the girl from Prague who got out of Soviet occupied Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. We all admired you for your tremendous courage.”

AUGUST 22, 2018ByROBERT HERSOWITZ
Jana and her sister Eva with their parents, at her father’s newspaper office in Prague, in 1958, reflected in the glass of his desk

The Weinstein

DECEMBER 11, 2017ByDAVID ROSH PINA
The Jerusalem Post

Low-cost airline expands routes to Eilat

Currently Wizz Air has 18 routes serving both Ben-Gurion and Ovda airports.

AUGUST 9, 2017ByBECKY BROTHMAN
Wizz Air plane seen on the runway

Iconic Prague Synagogue gets first new Torahs since World War II

Before World War Two, there were about 125,000 Jews living in what is now the Czech Republic. About 80,000 were killed during the war.

MARCH 20, 2017ByREUTERS
Members of the Czech Jewish Community dance with new Torah scrolls in front of the medieval Old-New Synagogue in Prague March 19, 2017

Czech schools: Jerusalem can't be labeled Israel's capital in school books

The decision came after a complaint from the Palestinian embassy due to an atlas used in local schools which listed Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

AUGUST 30, 2016ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Map of Israel

Why did the Czech president ban the US ambassador from Prague Castle?

"I can't imagine the Czech ambassador in Washington would give advice to the American president where to travel," Czech President Milos Zeman says.

APRIL 6, 2015ByREUTERS
Prague Castle