Notre Dame

Apr 16, 2019, 9:43 AM

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Looking at the distressing images of Notre Dame going up in flames, I cannot help but think of those many synagogues that were torched by the Nazis and their supporters under very different circumstances on Krystallnacht in 1938. This was my late father’s Liberal synagogue in Breslau. It was never rebuilt and a modest plaque marks the site.

About the Author

Michael Boyden made aliyah from the UK in 1985, is a former President of the Israel Council of Reform Rabbis, Director of its Beit Din (Rabbinic Court) and rabbi of Kehilat Yonatan in Hod Hasharon, Israel.