The financially strapped Austrian Jewish community announced severe cutbacks after calling a financial offer from the government inadequate. The community said it would close its Hillel house, “massively” curtail religious services in the city’s main synagogue and cut subsidies to religious, social and cultural associations by 50 percent.
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