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Outside Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue, Spanish olive trees endure northern winters

Growing in planters designed to help them survive, the Iberian imports need to be tucked in each winter to see another spring.

A millionaire’s plan to rebuild an Alabama Jewish community may be going south

• A Jewish group in Alabama led by a wealthy hotelier offered as much as $50,000 to Jewish families willing to relocate to its town.
• Lisa and Kenny Priddle of New York took them up on the offer.
• Seven years later, they are having second thoughts.