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Women rabbis making history in Germany

Germany boasts 1,700 years of Jewish history, but that history is often overshadowed by the Holocaust. Two female rabbis in Berlin, one queer, one a convert to Judaism, may represent the diversity in Jewish life in Germany today.

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