Hungarian Jews joined teen-agers from across Central Europe to inaugurate the first synagogue built in the country since the Holocaust. The synagogue, part of an educational center at a Jewish summer camp in the southern Hungarian town of Szarvas, was built with funds from the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
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