Fighting for Survival at Sholem Aleichem's Shul

From: Forward | Date: December 8, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Edward Zwirn
Forward
12-08-1995
Fighting for Survival at Sholem Aleichem's Shul.

KIEV -- The last shul here is in danger of being shut down as elderly congregants charge they are being squeezed out by the puppet theater that currently occupies much of the synagogue, which was made famous in the novels and short stories of Sholem Aleichem.

The small band of determined Jewish worshipers at the Choral Synagogue, an ornate 19th-century blue-and-white building, say they are especially distressed because the Ukraine government had vowed to return the building to them and allow them to restore it to ...

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