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To: hoosierboy

Dumb question: We don't have a synagogue in town; we have a Jewish center. It's actually a former church. Why isn't it a synagogue? Is it missing something so it can't be called a synagogue?


12 posted on 04/21/2005 11:46:21 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

It might serve as more than a house of worship. It also depends on what strain of Judaism the congregation consists of. Reform Judaism tends to call its houses of worship "temples," while "synagogues" tend to refer to conservative and orthodox. It's also possible that if there's only one game in town, maybe they used "Jewish center" as a more all-encompassing term.


15 posted on 04/21/2005 11:58:38 AM PDT by Guvmint_Cheese (Beware of virgin porcupines bearing antichrists...)
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To: AppyPappy

Probably the jews in town are JINO's Jews in name only and dont go to synagogue or dont practice. That all I can think of. There probably is a synagogue in town, but you dont know it.


38 posted on 04/21/2005 12:44:46 PM PDT by hoosierboy
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