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Back When the Jews Built Like JewsThursday, March 21, 2013 by Ben Greenfield | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
In December 1872, authorities in Florence halted elaborate plans for a grand synagogue and criticized the city's Jews—for not building more Jewishly.
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X-Rated Haggadah Dan Rabinowitz, Seforim. The Prague 1526 edition of the Haggadah is "one of the most important illustrated Haggadot ever published." But recent reprints have altered the artwork—for modesty's sake.