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The New Business Of N.Y. Shuls
Mergers and ‘air rights’ are redefining how synagogues are adapting to demographic and real estate realities.
Tamar Snyder Staff Writer
Higher Ground: ‘Divine Profits’ For Three Leading Congregations
Synagogues in Manhattan are getting a facelift — and it’s commercial developers who are delivering a potent injection of cash.
Destined to be the largest synagogue constructed in Manhattan in 50 years, Lincoln Square Synagogue’s state-of-the-art, 52,000-square-foot shul is being funded in part ...
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Hamas Stands To Gain If Summit Fails
Fears of new violence if upcoming, high-stakes Annapolis meeting tanks.
James D. Besser Washington Correspondent
Despite efforts by U.S. officials to tamp down expectations, next month’s Mideast peace conference in Annapolis, Md., is looking more and more like a high-stakes roll of the dice by the Bush administration.
And if the gamble comes up empty, experts ...
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Anxious At The Syrian Border
For the UN Observer Force on the Golan, cycles of tension and calm as talk of conflict swirls.
Joshua Mitnick Israel Correspondent
Camp Ziouani, Golan Heights — It started last spring when grazing sheep crossed to the Israeli side of the invisible Golan Heights disengagement border, bringing Syrian herdsman face to face with IDF soldiers on heightened alert after the Lebanon war.
The ...
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