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Grand re-opening. Did you ever think you would ever see this in your lifetime?

Germany’s biggest synagogue, on Rykestrasse in Berlin, has re-opened after a lavish restoration.

The synagogue was set ablaze on Kristallnacht, or The Night of Broken Glass in 1938.

Friday’s inauguration saw rabbis bringing the Torah [...]

Herb Kohn remembers the night 70 years ago when Nazi troopers stepped into his family’s apartment in Frankfurt on Main, Germany, shoved his mother to the floor and demanded that any men between 16 and 60 years old come out.
“My father came out of the back. He was 38. We didn’t know anything about where [...]

American military researchers say they have unlocked the secret to regrowing limbs and recreating organs in humans who have sustained major injuries.
Using “nanoscaffolding,” the researchers have regrown a man’s fingertip and the internal organs of several test subjects.
The technology works by placing a very fine apparatus called a scaffold, which is made of polymer fibres [...]

Perhaps the only institution in America whose approval rating is beneath that of Congress is the media.
Both have won their reputations the hard way. They earned them.
Consider the fawning indulgence shown insider Joe Biden with the dripping contempt visited on outsider Sarah Palin.
Twice last weekend, Biden grimly warned at closed-door meetings that a great crisis [...]

How to be happy. That’s really what it all comes down to, isn’t it? Even if life has been chugging along at a fairly joyous pace, most of us would admit a little more happy couldn’t hurt. Often all that requires is a gentle reminder of how good we already have it or a simple [...]