Prague

Kanye West concert in Prague scrapped as venue owner terminates contract - report

Additional concerts, including ones planned for Poland, Italy, and other countries, have also been canceled in the recent past.

 Kanye West attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
SLOT MACHINES at a Barriere Group casino in Enghien-les-Bains, in Paris suburb, on March 12, 2026.

Israeli businessman 'King of Slot Machines' Tony Bargig murdered in Prague

Czech Ambassador to Israel, Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova.

Israel-Czech relations are strong, have been so for decades, Prague's ambassador tells 'Post'

Police officers and a firefighters stand in front of a burned production hall at an industrial area in Pardubice, Czech Republic, March 20, 2026.

Czechs investigate fire after reports of anti-Israel group claiming responsibility


Prague's mayor under police protection due to 'risk on his life'

At least one Czech investigative outlet claimed that the protection was due to the mayor being the target of a Russian poisoning plot

Prague Mayor Zdenek Hrib signs the Pact of Free Cities at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, December 16, 2019.

Prague Jewish community fears for welfare aid for Holocaust survivors

The community is having to tap its reserves to pay for welfare services for Holocaust survivors that tourists usually help fund.

The Pinkas Synagogue in central Prague. The walls in the synagogue are overwritten with some 80,000 names of the Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust

'Einstein in Bohemia': A forgotten chapter for the famed scientist

In Einstein in Bohemia, Michael Gordin provides a meticulously researched, accessible, and fascinating portrait of Einstein, filtered “through the lens of his ties to Habsburg Prague.”

The medieval Charles Bridge in Prague

A Czech mate in Jewish Prague

Hoffberg advises spending three to four hours for the tour, to enable stops at all the vital destinations, of which there are many.

A synagogue in Prague

Prague will return pieces of Jewish gravestones used as cobblestones

The Czech Jewish community has called for the removal and return of the stones for years. Stones uncovered during future excavation work will be returned.

THE CLOCK with Hebrew letters and counterclockwise dial on the Jewish Town Hall in Prague, next to the  Old-New Synagogue, is a salient feature of the Jewish Quarter

My Word: From Jerusalem to a Prague summer and back

Throughout our short stay – a high school graduation present to my son, who turns 18 next month – two different pieces of music constantly came to mind.

THE CLOCK with Hebrew letters and counterclockwise dial on the Jewish Town Hall in Prague, next to the  Old-New Synagogue, is a salient feature of the Jewish Quarter

Hungary, Slovakia to establish diplomatic delegations in Jerusalem

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis made his first visit to Israel, as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia create greater inroads with the Jewish state.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš

Deri tours one of Europe's oldest synagogues on official visit to Prague

Deri is scheduled to visit interior ministers from the Czech Republic and Hungary as well as other Jewish institutions.

Deri tours one of Europe's oldest synagogues on an official visit to Prague.

Czech city festival features skit mocking Jews

"I will get this money from you one way or another,” the Jewish character said in the skit.

Irish Jew Raphael Siev who is part of Ireland's dwindling Jewish community is seen reading a book in this photo taken on March 2, 2003

Golden Prague is as serene as the Moldau River

About a half million tourists, predominantly non-Jewish, each year tour the Jewish Quarter, or Josefov, as it is called.

The Charles bridge in Prague