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It was a Wednesday afternoon in Central Synagogue, on Lexington Avenue in New York. Four Jewish American ladies, two Israelis living in New Jersey, an exchange student from India, and us, a couple of tourists from Southeast Asia, were taken around the resplendent temple, a designated National Historic Landmark.
Our eloquent guide interspersed her descriptions of the synagogue’s history and architecture with fascinating stories. In one of her anecdotes, a nearby mosque had been destroyed by fire. Its congregants had nowhere to go.
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