Jeremy Borovitz

Oct 10, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Jeremy Borovitz |Akiva Schick |Meir Buzaglo

Five years ago on Yom Kippur, my wife and I traveled with twenty community members from our home in Berlin to the city of Halle. We wanted to enliven the services of the smaller East German community, which was mostly inhabited by older Jews from the former Soviet Union. Some eighty years ago, Halle had been home to a sizable synagogue, which was destroyed on Kristallnacht. Now, we gathered in a former funeral home.