From The European Jewish Press: Poland’s Jewish community celebrated on Sunday the reopening of the Lublin synagogue in the building which once housed the largest rabbi school in Europe before being nearly destroyed in the Holocaust. Michael Schudrich, Poland’s chief rabbi, performed theopening ceremony at the Yeshiva Chachmei synagogue inthe eastern Poland city. Schudrich said the reopening of the synagogue is asign of the “growing up” of Poland’s Jewish community. With the affixing of the mezuzah – a special parchment with required Hebrew inscriptions – to the synagogue doorposts and the ceremonial entry of the Torah scroll, the synagogue once
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