http://www.registan.net/index.php/2006/02/20/what-remains-of-tajikistans-synagogue/ Central Asia News -- All Central Asia, All The Time Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:00:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2006/02/20/what-remains-of-tajikistans-synagogue/comment-page-1/#comment-127196 Democracy in Central Asia :: Synagogue Illegally Destroyed :: March :: 2006 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:18:21 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=6253#comment-127196 [...] 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 this will not render the country, as several blogs indelicately put it, “Jew free,” the incident represents a shameful example of Rakhmonov’s pettiness and megalomania. The synagogue belongs to the Bukharan Jewish community, one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities and quite distinct from the Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The 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 this will not render the country, as several blogs indelicately put it, “Jew free,” the incident represents a shameful example of Rakhmonov’s pettiness and megalomania. The synagogue belongs to the Bukharan Jewish community, one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities and quite distinct from the Sephardim and Ashkenazim. The 280 members are mostly elderly and poor and have no way of paying for a synagogue. [...]

]]> http://www.registan.net/index.php/2006/02/20/what-remains-of-tajikistans-synagogue/comment-page-1/#comment-124914 NoisyRoom.net » Another Muslim Country Soon to be Jew Free Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:23:05 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=6253#comment-124914 [...] The sad thing about this story of the last Jewish Synagogue in Tajikistan is that there are probably so few Jews left that it really isn’t needed. Registan: The last remaining synagogue in Tajikistan is being torn down. The Jewish center and surrounding neighborhood have been threatened with demolition for years, but interventions by the US and Israeli embassies and Jewish religious authorities in Tashkent brought previous assurances that the synagogue would either be saved or fairly compensated. The demolition is scheduled as part of a huge presidential palace complex being built in the center of town. Without written warning or any legal notification, the water and phones were cut on 7 February, and the bulldozers came in this week. The building is still standing but half of the property, including the mikveh (ritual bath), classroom space, and the kosher butchery, are demolished. The road to the synagogue is gone and people must now walk over mud and demolition waste to get to the entrance, the courtyard has been turned into storage space for the demolition work, all by order (or with the blessing of) city authorities. [...] [...] The sad thing about this story of the last Jewish Synagogue in Tajikistan is that there are probably so few Jews left that it really isn’t needed. Registan: The last remaining synagogue in Tajikistan is being torn down. The Jewish center and surrounding neighborhood have been threatened with demolition for years, but interventions by the US and Israeli embassies and Jewish religious authorities in Tashkent brought previous assurances that the synagogue would either be saved or fairly compensated. The demolition is scheduled as part of a huge presidential palace complex being built in the center of town. Without written warning or any legal notification, the water and phones were cut on 7 February, and the bulldozers came in this week. The building is still standing but half of the property, including the mikveh (ritual bath), classroom space, and the kosher butchery, are demolished. The road to the synagogue is gone and people must now walk over mud and demolition waste to get to the entrance, the courtyard has been turned into storage space for the demolition work, all by order (or with the blessing of) city authorities. [...]

]]> http://www.registan.net/index.php/2006/02/20/what-remains-of-tajikistans-synagogue/comment-page-1/#comment-124538 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Tajikistan: Destroying a Synagogue Tue, 21 Feb 2006 00:04:47 +0000 http://www.registan.net/?p=6253#comment-124538 [...] A Dushanbe expat writing for Registan.net reports on the impending destruction of Tajikistan’s only synagogue. [...] [...] A Dushanbe expat writing for Registan.net reports on the impending destruction of Tajikistan’s only synagogue. [...]

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