Michelle Obama Visits Prague Jewish Quarter
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
The Jerusalem Post was with MO in Prague's historic Jewish quarter yesterday. "It was a wonderful visit, but much too short," MO said. "I'll be back."
The JPost has a video, which you can see here. She had a busy day:
Her visit included a stop at the Pinkas synagogue, whose walls bear the names of more than 80,000 Czech Holocaust victims...
There were a few somber moments at the tiny cemetery, jammed with some 12,000 family gravestones crowded into a little garden near the Vltava River, and about 100,000 dead buried in several layers beneath them.
Mrs. Obama stood briefly by the oldest gravestone - that marking the resting place of poet Avigdor Kara, who died in 1439 - before moving to the grave of the legendary 16th century rabbi Yehuda Loew, the Maharal,...