Spanish town celebrates medieval Jewish heritage with festival
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Popping open some 10,000 bottles of wine to get into the holiday spirit, some 20,000 people flocked to this small northwestern Spanish town for the Istoria Festival, a celebration going back to medieval times.
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From Titian to Picasso and El Greco to Juan Gris, a new exhibition at Madrid's Prado museum is offering art fans the chance to see for themselves under one roof a cross-section of 500 years of Spanish portrait art.
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Thousands of Hasidic Jews from around the world are gathering in the Ukrainian city of Uman for a yearly pilgrimage marked by singing, dancing and prayer.
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A traveling exhibition commemorates the innovative journalism from the period in the late 1930s when the literary elite descended on Spain.
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For the first time, St. Maarteners residing in The Netherlands will celebrate St.
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The 92nd Street Y celebrates three centuries of amazingly rich and complex American Jewish history with its first New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival.
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BARCELONA, Spain  - There is often talk of two Spains, right and left or traditional and modern; the debate will go on for years but one issue was settled long ago.
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Thousands of pilgrims and a new Palestinian leadership are celebrating Christmas in the town of Jesus&#39;s birth with prayers for peace after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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It's all about Pedro Almodovar at the New York Film Festival, where the irreverent, inimitable Spanish filmmaker will be honored with a look back at his work.
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Spain marks the third anniversary of the Madrid  train bombings by unveiling a towering glass memorial.
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Italian Jews have a proud 2,000-year history. They were there when the Second Temple still stood and Rome ruled the Mediterranean.
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Many visitors to Spain tend toward the cities of Madrid, Barcelona and the more Mediterranean-flavored south.
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Once a vibrant center for Jewish culture, the Kazimierz ghetto in the Polish city of Krakow was devastated during World War II.
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Tonnes of flying tomatoes streaked the streets of Bunol red and left 20,000 visitors wallowing in a pond of pulped fruit as the tiny Spanish town celebrated the world's largest food fight.
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A historic Serbian Jewish cemetery that for decades has been home to hundreds of Gypsies is getting a face lift after an agreement negotiated by the head of the tiny Jewish community in the town of Nis.
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Seville's minaret has been the bell tower of the city's Roman Catholic cathedral for the last 500 years.
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A ceremony of commemoration to mark Holocaust Memorial Day took place in City Hall in Dublin this evening.