One of the three biggest Hebrew holidays, Pesach (Passover) starts at sundown (5 PM) on 22 April and ends on 30 April. It is a movable feast, falling after the 14 th day of the spring month of Nisan which starts after the spring equinox with the..
After the surprising terrorist attacks of the Hamas organization on the State of Israel, the Bulgarian authorities assessed the level of terrorist threat to Bulgaria as low, with the exception of places such as airports, train stations, synagogues,..
A new educational and cultural complex will be built in Sofia, the Organization of Jews in Bulgaria “ Shalom ” announced. The new building which is to be situated at the junction of Sofia's Tsar Simeon and Dimitar Petkov streets will bring..
The 80th anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews will be celebrated this evening with a concert by the Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria concert hall in Sofia. The Bulgarian orchestra will be joined by the Israeli Ashira Choir, Capella Anima and..
The Edinburgh International Theatre Festival is an annual event held since 1947 in the last three weeks of August. It features some of the best artists in the performing arts. An occasion to pay attention to this year's edition are... important pages..
At a conference on anti-Semitism at the Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Assoc. Prof. Rumyana Christidi, who is head of Jewish studies at Sofia University, presented Bulgaria’s experience in inter-ethnic relations. “Relations between Jews and..
The documentary “ 49,172 ” and the exhibition “The Jews in the Bulgarian lands” from the archives of the Saints Cyril and Methodius National Library, were presented in Los Angeles. The film “ 49,172 ”, directed by Plamen Petkov and produced by..
Hundreds of Bulgarian expats in Israel attended the traditional fair in “Bulgaria” forest near Jerusalem. The congregation took place to mark the upcoming Day of St. Cyril and Methodius on 11 May, and the anniversary of the breaking up of a..
An interesting exhibition named “The Jewish Street - Reconstruction" is on display at the Sofia History Museum on 1 Banski Square. It presents an evidence of the life of the Jews in Bulgarian towns after the Liberation of Bulgaria (1878) until the..
Bulgaria’s consul general in Chicago Svetoslav Stankov and Prof. Samuel Refetoff were guest lecturers at a discussion called Light among Darkness marking the 80 th anniversary since the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II...
