Paris Chief Rabbi Alain Goldman yesterday inaugurated a new synagogue in the Paris suburb of “Kremlin Bicetre” in the heart of the city’s “Red Belt” operated for a generation by Communist municipalities. Several thousand Jews, mainly of North African origin, live in the area.
Goldman said at the inauguration that the new synagogue is part of a general plan which aims at opening synagogues and community centers in all areas “in which Jews live and pray.”
Forty synagogues have been built during the last 20 years, Goldman said. The plan provides for the construction of three new synagogues in Paris itself in areas in which Jews have settled only in recent years.
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