The basement of Dresden’s new synagogue was flooded last Friday, but the sanctuary was still dry and Torah scrolls had been secured. The synagogue, which was rebuilt in 2001, 63 years after being destroyed on Kristallnacht, couldn’t escape the floods that have filled much of the eastern German city’s historic center with muddy brown water.
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