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My family synagogue burned down in Minnesota this week. We lost much more than a building.

American Jews woke Monday morning to the ancestrally terrifying image of a synagogue on fire. It was my family’s shul: Adas Israel in Duluth, Minnesota. There is a dollhouse model of the Great Synagogue of Vilna in Israel’s Museum of the Jewish People. “That is the Third Street shul,” my great-aunt said on the eve of […]