A new synagogue is to be opened in Magdeburg in eastern Germany on Sunday, some 85 years after it was destroyed in a pogrom. The new building, costing €7.6 million ($8.1 million), was built thanks to decades of effort by the city’s citizens who collected donations to build the new place of worship. A sponsoring organization contributed €500,000, and the state of Saxony-Anhalt provided the largest part of the financing. The opening is planned for 11 am (1000 GMT) and state premier Reiner Haseloff and the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster are expected to attend. …