The 35 Jewish families of Lawrence learned today that a quiet campaign has been organized by a group of Christians to raise funds for remodeling the Jewish Community Center into a synagogue. A slightly flabbergasted president of the center, Herman Cohen, said “we did not know about it.”
L. O. Ringler, leader of the Christian group, said the project was started because the Jewish families, and 80 Jewish students at the University of Kansas, are the only religious group in Lawrence without a place to worship. The nearest synagogue is in Kansas City.
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