Reburial of 15 recently exhumed bodies
The completion of the sarcophagus in the south courtyard of the synagogue....
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September
News
25
August
European Day of Jewish Culture
On Sunday, September 6 at 7 p.m. Etz Hayyim Synagogue will host an evening of Sephardi Festival food and recipes, music and a small exhibit of reproductions of Jewish art....
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11
August
June 28 – Memorial Service for the Jewish community of Hania killed in 1944.
Since the rededication of the Synagogue in 2000 we have had an annual memorial service to commemorate the Jews, Greeks and Italian prisoners of war who were drowned in the sinking of the Tannais in 1944....
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04
August
Recent Article in the Guardian
The UK newspaper Guardian, recently ran an article featuring the Synagogue, written by Tony Lerman. To read the full article follow the link below...
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21
July
Reading from “Darwin a Life in Poems” by Ruth Padel
How did Charles Darwin and his wife handle the painful gulf between their religious beliefs?...
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11
July
Saltiel Family gathering at Etz Hayyim – 26-29 June 2009.
After more then a year in preparation over 50 members of the (geographically) quite extended Shaltiel (Schealtiel) family gathered in Heraklion...
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02
July
Memorial Service (Askava) of June 28th
The annual memorial service for the Cretan Jewish community that was killed during WWII was held on Sunday, June 28th....
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17
June
Wedding for Lydia Abastado and Dimitris Andriotis
On May 22nd the Synagogue was filled with family and guests from throughout Greece and beyond...
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15
June
Recent Acquisition: an 18th cent. Tombstone
The tombstone was found in discarded rubble in the vicinity of the old Xenia Hotel at Top Hana not long after WWII....
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15
June
The recent exhumation of fifteen burials from the former Jewish cemetery of Hania.
Recently the exhumed skeletal remains of 15 Jews were discovered in Nea Hora that have been subsequently brought to a small ‘cemetery’ at Etz Hayyim....
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