Why should a 21st-century synagogue look any different from an 18th-century one? After all, the structure of the service and many of the prayers are the same, one might argue. But as modern life has ...

Envisioned by Pietro Belluschi, Temple B’rith Kodesh in Rochester, New York, was published in RECORD in November, 1963, a ...

The Museum at Eldridge Street, a Lower East Side synagogue that was built in 1887 and holds National Historic Landmark status, recently underwent a quarter-century-long renovation, which culminated ...

Synagogues existing in Poland as far back as the year 7203, more than 1,700 years ago, according to Professor George Lukomski, instructor in architecture, whose drawings of early Polish synagogues ...

A provocative interpretation of the art and architecture of a pre-modern wooden synagogue illuminates the social, historical and religious context of an Eastern-European Jewish community Thomas C.

As the Hebrew new year 5761 dawns, synagogues around the world fill with Jews celebrating the High Holy Days. For observant Jews, it's a time of atonement, festivity, ancient history and the mystery ...

Rem Koolhaas is the cerebral Dutch architect who -- with his Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA -- has spent several decades dazzling the world with provocative ideas and buildings. LA, ...

Synagogues in England and in seven countries of Eastern and Central Europe will receive a total of $140,000 from the World Monuments Fund as part of a preservation program. The synagogues that will ...

A provocative interpretation of the art and architecture of a pre-modern wooden synagogue illuminates the social, historical and religious context of an Eastern-European Jewish community Thomas C.