American Jewish industrialist Joseph Foster, owner of the Foster Grant Chemical Works in Breda, The Netherlands, has contributed 75,000 Dutch guilders (about $25,000) to the small Jewish congregation in Breda toward construction of a new synagogue. Christian groups have already collected 10,000 guilders (about $3,000) for this purpose.
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