SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Organisers of a conference for Orthodox Jewish Rabbis in Bosnia's capital Sarajevo have moved it to ...

The hotel, in which the three-day meeting was to take place, informed the CER that it could not host the event due to ...

This cancellation followed an open letter by the Bosnian Federal Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Adnan Delić, which was ...

Sarajevo teaches us that history is not just found in monuments or museums; it is alive in the choices people make, ...

Following a complaint from a Bosnian minister, a biannual meeting of the Conference of European Rabbis that was to be held in ...

Overlooking the town from a tranquil hillside, the Stolac Jewish Cemetery is among the oldest and most significant Sephardic ...

The Conference of European Rabbis (CER) has cancelled its upcoming meeting in Sarajevo after a minister called for a boycott ...

Bosnia’s small Jewish community — with barely 900 members throughout the country, 500 of whom live in Sarajevo — are mourning the loss of a living link to communal memory as well as a dear ...

Starting tonight, many Jews around the world will celebrate Purim in the same ways: by reading the story of the heroic Queen Esther, dressing in festive costumes and drinking alcohol. For many of ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (RNS) — Cantor Igor Bencion Kožemjakin doesn’t always know if he will have a minyan, or quorum of 10 Jews necessary to recite certain prayers in the Jewish liturgical service.

“This is a sad slap that Sarajevo has given itself,” said the head of the country’s Jewish community. A meeting of leading European rabbis has been canceled in Sarajevo after high-profile ...

For many of the 900 or so Jews in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it will be the first of two annual Purim celebrations. Since 1820, locals have also observed the Purim de Saray (Saray being a root of the ...