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Stanton Street Synagogue

... that an attempt to sell the aging Stanton Street Synagogue (pictured) on the Lower East Side of Manhattan to a Jesuit priest led to its resurgence as a Jewish house of worship?
... that it is theorized that Jews' Gate Cemetery in Gibraltar was founded on Windmill Hill due to the expulsion of Jews mandated under the Treaty of Utrecht?
... that when Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz cried, "even the State Department listened"?
... that "Miky", a bomb-sniffing police dog that only responds to commands in Hebrew, helped to revitalize the Jewish community in Helena, Montana, that built Temple Emanu-El?
... that the Jewish Military Museum was founded partly to counter the idea that British Jews have avoided serving in the armed forces?

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