A new synagogue has opened in Regensburg, Bavaria, 80 years after the original was destroyed during the Nazi-led pogrom of November 1938. The city's Catholic bishop has asked its Jewish community for forgiveness.

The new synagogue had risen "from the ashes," said Josef Chaim Bloch, rabbi to Regensburg's 1,000-member Jewish community, at Wednesday's opening that also marked 500 years exactly since a 16th century expulsion of hundreds of Jewish residents.

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