Why The Police Broke Down The Door To This Synagogue

• Published date: 11 March 2021
• Date: 11 March 2021
• Author: Sponsored Content
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

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Their journey hit a major roadblock at the end of 2020, however, when the synagogue was purchased by a local non-Jew. Plans are now underway for the site to become a casino. Halperin and his congregants have been evicted from the synagogue, and the community which was held together by the cultural center has already begun to dissolve.

Halperin is extremely concerned that the end of the Varna synagogue will be the end of the Varna community. His family are haunted by images of young European partiers, gambling and dancing on their bima, with their aron kodesh, with the other fixtures of the building which hold so much more meaning than the aesthetics...