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Czech synagogues rise again after gift from Brussels
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Published: 28.06.14, 14:25
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1. Czechs allowed Jewish genocide to save Prague architectu
Zechariah   (06.28.14)
Any Jew who visits Prague ought now the the Czech PrimeMinister boated he saved Pragues Precious Architecture by Surrender to Nazism and yet let the Nazis deal the Czech Jews Genocide ,Only the Jewish communists with Robert Maxwell supplied arms to strengthen Post Shoah world Jewry get small justice by winning the war of independance
2. Re-built- for WHAT???
Gabriel Eichler ,   New York USA   (06.29.14)
Building Synagogues, so that they could stand empty- only filled with ghosts of the murdered may be nice PR, but serves no purpose. That $14 million should have been spent on the elderly, sik, lonely and mostly abandoned survivors who are straggling to exist day to day. Hungary is full of restored and empty synagogues and plaques whose only "purpose" is to evoke the deep hatred against tombstones and the State of Israel. Any able bodied Jew should get out of Europe! The writing is on the wall!
3. #1 ,...
split ,   US   (06.29.14)
After the reign of post WWII Stalin's Jewish goons I'm surprised that they tolerate any of you there because those what you see there today are the descendants of those commies and will stab them in the back again at the first chance they get just like they did in the past during Austro-Hungarian and Soviet conquest ,...
4. Sacred Fragments
Jonathan Lyon ,   Berkeley, California   (06.30.14)
When we toured Prague a couple of years ago, we toured its synagogues. It was a sad affair. The synagogues were absolutely drop dead gorgeous, but lacking what gave them their actual beauty: Congregants. Community. Commitment. Direction. Vision. Life. The synagogues are now merely sacred fragments of what once was an essential vibrant Jewish community. Now they are just shells. Venues for museums and for concerts featuring (during our visit) the anti-Semite Carl Orff's Carmina Burrana. The one synagogue in Prague that spoke to me was the one lined floor-to-ceiling with names; All the names of those Jews in Czech communities murdered during the Sho'ah. There, we all cried. And you see, a living synagogue is a place where one's soul must be able to cry.
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