Tajikistan: Dushanbe's Last Synagogue Demolished


	Tajikistan: Dushanbe's Last Synagogue Demolished

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6-23-2008 5:47 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/188baf17-a70c-455a-8c50-2a995acc0650/1CBC3396-A19F-4524-BE15-B33EA1E71E3E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/6/719a60b6-ba4f-4e82-8ec3-8074bc40e7ea.html" href="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/6/719a60b6-ba4f-4e82-8ec3-8074bc40e7ea.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.rferl.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/6/719a60b6-ba4f-4e82-8ec3-8074bc40e7ea.html"><DIV>Tajikistan's ancient Jewish community lost its only remaining synagogue in downtown Dushanbe, as authorities decided to tear down old buildings in the synagogue's neighborhood so that yet another presidential palace can be built.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/6/719a60b6-ba4f-4e82-8ec3-8074bc40e7ea.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.rferl.org/img/CB4D5415-1E5A-4806-AD4A-948276A4FE54" alt="Tajikistan -- Destroyed synagogue in Dushanbe, 20June2008" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/6/719a60b6-ba4f-4e82-8ec3-8074bc40e7ea.html"><DIV>The one-story synagogue was located in the city center, where
authorities have begun construction of the so-called Palace of the
Nation -- a luxurious presidential complex complete with parks and
fountains.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/6/719a60b6-ba4f-4e82-8ec3-8074bc40e7ea.html"><DIV>For the city's several hundred Jews, the synagogue
was both a place for religious services and a community center. Many of
the Jews are elderly and poor, and the synagogue was a place where they
could also get a free meal.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/6/719a60b6-ba4f-4e82-8ec3-8074bc40e7ea.html"><DIV>The Jewish community has been
offered a plot of land on a distant edge of the city to build a new
synagogue at their own expense. However, the members of the community
-- who were not compensated for the loss of their synagogue -- say they
cannot afford to build a new house of worship in the far-away area.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1CBC3396-A19F-4524-BE15-B33EA1E71E3E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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