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Robert (left) and Max Verofsky, reading from the Torah on the day of their Bar Mitzvahs this month at the Fraenkelufer Synagogue in Berlin.

A Jewish renaissance takes root

In Germany, new generation reclaims its heritage

By Colin Nickerson
Globe Staff / December 29, 2005

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BERLIN -- Shelly Kupferberg, 31, is the granddaughter of Jews who fled the Nazi terror in the 1930s for the land that would become Israel. Her parents returned to Berlin in the early 1970s, weary of Israel's wars and yearning for their German heritage. She was raised both as a Jew and a German, and takes quiet pride in both ... (Full article: 1700 words)

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