http://www.registan.net/index.php/2004/05/28/the-tajik-synagogue-fiasco/ Central Asia News -- All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:44:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2004/05/28/the-tajik-synagogue-fiasco/comment-page-1/#comment-127186 Democracy in Central Asia :: Synagogue Illegally Destroyed :: March :: 2006 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:11:02 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=3696#comment-127186 [...] As reported on Registan (previously here and here) and widely blogged about, in order to build him a new palace, Rakhmonov’s authorities have begun the demolition of Tajikistan’s only synagogue. While the country is not, as several blogs indelicately put it, “Jew free, the incident represents a shameful example of Rakhmonov’s pettiness. The synagogue belongs to the Bukharan Jewish community, one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities and quite distinct from the Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Its 280 members are mostly elderly and poor and have no way of paying for a synagogue. [...] [...] As reported on Registan (previously here and here) and widely blogged about, in order to build him a new palace, Rakhmonov’s authorities have begun the demolition of Tajikistan’s only synagogue. While the country is not, as several blogs indelicately put it, “Jew free, the incident represents a shameful example of Rakhmonov’s pettiness. The synagogue belongs to the Bukharan Jewish community, one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities and quite distinct from the Sephardim and Ashkenazim. Its 280 members are mostly elderly and poor and have no way of paying for a synagogue. [...]

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