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When an old synagogue downsizes, what do you do with all its stuff?
September 5, 2018 12:41pmERIE, Pa. (JTA) — There was some debate about putting the old synagogue building up for sale and moving to a new, smaller building, but not much. When a major pipe burst at Temple Anshe Hesed in 2012, the cost of repairing the nearly century-old building convinced the small but resilient congregation that it was…
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A Rust Belt synagogue ‘runs out of people’ and gathers to bury its past
January 4, 2018 2:42pmNEW CASTLE, Pa. (JTA) — It was a frigid 10 degrees on Sunday, the last day of 2017, but some 20 people gathered at Congregation Tifereth Israel’s cemetery in this city of 22,000 on the Ohio border. A blue tent and folding chairs had been set up for attendees, and a pit in the ground…
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