by Gavriel Queenann Corfu Synagogue:
Arsonists broke into Corfu's only synagogue and burned the community's prayer books and torah scrolls Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday members of the community, some distraught and weeping, gathered at the synagogue and mourned over the ashes of the Torah scrolls.
Today the Jewish community on Corfu numbers less than 100.
“It’s very difficult for us,” Rabbi Shlomo Naftali, an Israeli rabbi who was flown to Greece to conduct Passover ceremonies. “We stood around the books and cried. Now we’ll have to bury them.”
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