Prague’s Jubilee Synagogue hosted its first Jewish wedding in more than 30 years. The marriage of David Stecher, 32, and Jitka Sobotkova, 29, was hailed by members of the Prague Jewish Community as a sign that Jewish life in the city is regaining some of the vitality lost in the Holocaust and during the former Communist regime. But the synagogue is also “less fashionable for wedding ceremonies” than Prague’s Old-New Synagogue, said a member of the local Jewish community.
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