Located about forty kilometers from Chisinau, Orhei is best known by tourist guides for its troglodyte monastery, located on the outskirts of the city in Orhei Vechi, very interesting to visit. It is also considered one of the major tourist spots in Moldova. The city also has a rich Jewish past, many traces of which remain today. As you exit Chisinau on the Orhei Road, ask to stop at the ...

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Chisinau (Kishinev)

Moldova

At the start of the twentieth century, Kishinev had more than seventy synagogues and about twenty yeshivot. Unlike many other cities in the Russian Empire, the Jews of Kishinev did not live in a ghetto, except during the dark years of the Holocaust. While the working-class suburbs of the lower town concentrated the bulk of the Jewish population, some had also taken up residence in the upper, ...

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Moldova

Landlocked between Romania and Ukraine, Moldova has enjoyed a turbulent history over the past two centuries. Following the Bucharest Treaty of 1812 putting an end to the conflict between it and Constantinople, St. Petersburg annexed the eastern part of the Principality of Moldavia, under Ottoman suzerainty, and named it Bessarabia. Bessarabia, then overwhelmingly made up of Romanian-speaking ...

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Chabad Ayia Napa

Kavo Greko 11, Ayia Napa 5330 Tel : 96635762 / 96640980 https://www.chabadcyprus.com/

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Chabad Paphos

Otelou, Paphos Tel: +357 99981770 https://www.chabadcyprus.com/

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Chabad Nicosia

Ayias Elenis, Engomi, Nicosia Tel : +357 22 313393 https://www.chabadcyprus.com/

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Chabad Limassol

Porfyriou Dikaiou 5, 3095 Limassol Tel: +357 25363770 https://www.chabadcyprus.com/

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Chabad Larnaca

Apollodorou 4, 6020 Larnaca Tel: 357-24-668 753 https://www.chabadcyprus.com/

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Cyprus

The Jewish presence in Cyprus probably dates from the 3rd century BC, during the Roman conquest of the island. There seems to have been at least three synagogues, in Lapethos, Golgoi and Constantia-Galamine. The Jews took part in the revolt against Rome led by Artemion in 117 and were driven from the island by the Romans as a punishment. The Jews settled there over time, as Benjamin de Tudela ...

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