Hermann Gerson, President of Moises Ville's Baron Hirsch synagogue, reads Torah from the bimah, which Moises Ville’s Jewish ranchers fashioned like an ornate corral, with hand-sanded, stained and varnished logs at cross-angles. Hermann briefly trained to be a rabbi in Germany before his family fled from the Nazis to the Argentine Pampas, where he has been a rancher ever since.

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