BERLIN -- For the first time since the end of World War II, rabbis have been ordained in Germany. The three graduates of Potsdam's Abraham Geiger College were officially ordained in Dresden's New Synagogue on Sept. 14 under heavy security and with an audience of about 200, including German President Horst Koehler and Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Newly ordained Rabbi David Alter of Germany, 47, will work in Oldenburg; Czech Rabbi Tomas Kucera, 35, will be assigned to a congregation ...