(RNS) — From the cobblestone streets, a lesson in religious (and cultural) diversity. The synagogue is beautiful; its cemetery, including the grave of Isserles himself, haunting; the plaques with the ...

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One of the oldest and most sacred of European synagogues, the famous “Remo” synagogue in Cracow, founded by Rabbi Moses Isserles in 1553, is to be closed as a house of worship and will be converted ...