Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Menorahs, no Jews

NEAR KRAK�W, POLES BUILT AN ATHEIST MODEL WHERE MENORASH ARE NOW MADE

KRAK�W, Poland, Nov. 28 -- The model suburb of Nowa Huta was built here under a Communist philosophy of atheism.

Now it houses a workshop that manufactures menorahs -- popular with both Poles and tourists.

Metalodlew, a private company that was started 10 years ago, rents space from the Nowa Huta steelworks, a factory that is part of a complex established in the 1950s on the outskirts of Krak�w.

In the workshop, menorahs are produced alongside plaques for Catholic cemetery plots and life-size bronze figures of Pope John Paul II.

The menorahs were originally designed by an artist; now …

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