How joyous it is to find a town where our brethren have walked for 2,500 years and has been a safe haven in times of trouble. Lily Costi knows for sure that her family goes back at least five ...

The mystery and beauty of the phenomenon of Chalkida have captivated the Greeks since ancient times, including Aristotle ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rebecca Ann Hughes covers travel, culture and food in Europe. Chalkida is the cultured, elegant capital city of Evia, Greece’s ...

Chalkida, which also happens to have the oldest synagogue in Europe, is a small, non-touristy town about an hour north of Athens. I see them every time I am in the airport: observant Jewish travelers ...

A retired merchant in his nineties holds the keys to the oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe - and to centuries of Jewish history in Greece. As a child in the city of Chalkida, I used to climb the huge ...

I see them every time I am in the airport: observant Jewish travelers shlepping bulging bags of kosher food – tuna fish, instant noodles, peanut butter, and often pots and pans – arguing at check-in ...