The World Jewish Congress called on a U.N. agency to help save a synagogue in Tajikistan. The group called upon UNESCO, the U.N. arm that deals with historic preservation matters, to save the only synagogue in the capital of Dushanbe, which is being destroyed to make room for a presidential palace.
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