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Tskhinvali, Georgia - Abandoned Synagogue Gives Shelter in Ossetian War
Aug 22, 2008 at 03:32 PMTskhinvali, Georgia - When Georgian rockets began falling on this sleepy capital of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, Zemfira Tibilova and her neighbors ran to a century-old brick synagogue. During four days of fighting in the town, she said, four dozen gentiles hid in the building's dark basement with little food and water. "These holy walls protected us," said Tibilova, 60. "God is...
