GERMANY DOUBLES PAYMENT TO ITS JEWS
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Increase recognizes Jewish community’s work to integrate new immigrants, educate religious leaders and work with young people
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A Jewish group in Germany says it has reached an agreement with the government that will see Berlin double its funding to the nation’s Jewish community to €10 million (about $13 million) starting in 2012.
Glorious synagogue inaugurated in city of Speyer on ruins of old synagogue destroyed by Nazis on Kristallnacht. German president, ministers, hundreds of country’s Jews attend ceremony Central Council of Jews President Dieter Graumann said Wednesday the increase recognizes the community’s work to integrate new immigrants, educate religious leaders and work with the young people.
In 2003, Germany granted the Jewish community the same legal status a...