Moscow reneges on synagogue site

The Moscow City Council is building a kindergarten on a site promised to the Sephardic community for a new synagogue.Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has signed off on the council’s decision, which blocks the proposed project on Mantulinskaya Street, in the city center, the Interfax news agency reported.”According to the mayor’s decree, the earlier document booking the land plot on Mantulinskaya Street for the Moscow Sephardic community is declared null and void,” a spokesperson for the city council said in a statement Thursday.The spokesperson said Luzhkov ordered a new land plot for the proposed synagogue and cultural center outside the city center.