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November 12, 1980
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More than 2000 Jews from Rumania and abroad attended ceremonies here rededicating the Great Synagogue which has been fully restored since sustaining severe damage in the 1977 earthquake. Chief Rabbi Moshe Rosen of Rumania presided. Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits of Britain headed a delegation of Anglo-Jewish leaders. The Great Synagogue, built in 1846, is an historic landmark in the Rumanian capital.

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