The Sephardic synagogue here, which was destroyed by the recent earthquake, has been restored by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Rumania. The inauguration ceremony took place on the second eve of Rosh Hashanah in the presence of Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen, leaders of the Bucharest Jewish community and Mordechai Avagar, the Charge d’Affaires of Israel in Rumania. There are no more than 300 Jews of Sephardic origin left here and most of them are elderly.
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