First Rabbi-Ordination After WWII

DRESDEN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 14: Rabbi candidate Tomas Kucera (C.) from Czech Republic reads the torah scroll at the rehearsal for the ordination in the New Synagoge on September 14, 2006 in Dresden, Germany. Abraham Geiger College, the first liberal rabbinical seminary founded in Continental Europe since World War II, ordains the first three candidates as rabbis since the "Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums" in Berlin was forcefully closed in 1942. The three newly ordained rabbis will become members of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and will serve communities in Munich, Oldenburg and Cape Town. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)