Rabbis ordained in Germany for the first time since 1942

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/world/europe/14cnd-rabbis.html?ex=1158897600&en=6ec0c2db73a2ca5f&ei=5018&partner=BRITANNICA

Germany took another long stride out of the shadows of its history today as three men became the first rabbis ordained in this country since the Holocaust.

In a ceremony that blended hope for the future with a somber homage to the past, the three — a German, a Czech, and a South African — stood before a senior rabbi in Dresden’s starkly modern synagogue as he told them they had been singled out, just as in scripture Moses had chosen Joshua. “All of Germany celebrates with us today, and all of Europe as well,” said Rabbi Walter Jacob, the president of a rabbinical seminary in Potsdam, near Berlin, where the three men studied.

“Today, we have made a new beginning,” Rabbi Jacob said, noting that when the Nazis carried out their systematic slaughter of the Jews, it seemed to snuff out forever the future of the Jewish people here.

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I didn't realize that there were no German Rabbis being produced for all that time but am very glad to see it. This is a bit of good news.

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1. Very Cool (nt)

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2. A good step forward

But we can never forget what we lost.