Baden-Baden: The good good life, and Jewish renewal – The celebrated spa city of Baden-Baden, Germany, has a history that dates back to its Roman-era baths, and a contemporary Jewish community that looks to the future | ynetnews

For centuries, the curative powers of the mineral-rich thermal springs of Europe have been healing the ills of local populations, not to mention of their scourges: the soldiers of the invading armies of the Roman and Napoleonic empires.