A fight occurred in Bubrovna. White Russia, where the famous Dubrovner taleithim (prayer shawls are made, when the question of converting three synagogues was in troduced at a meeting of artisans. Most of the artisans protested that the proposal was stimulated by a stranger, while the local Jews want to maintain the synagogues.
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