A Toronto congregation plans to model its new synagogue after a destroyed shul in Poland. The Forest Hill Jewish Centre, a 100-family congregation whose current home is in a low-rise office above a Starbucks, plans to build a new synagogue that will recreate the exterior of a synagogue in the town of Jaslo that was destroyed by the Nazis.
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