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1986 Attack on synagogue in Istanbul, 23 killed

1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue

1981 Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured

1980 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris

1967 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue

1959 A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas

1948 Arabs blow up Jewish synagogue Hurvat Rabbi Yehudah he-Hasid

1943 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw

1917 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid

1886 Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91

1867 2nd synagogue in Curacao, Emanu-El of Willemstad, inaugurated

1836 Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem

1763 Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing U.S. synagogue)

1730 1st Jewish congregation in U.S. forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, New York City"

1728 Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue

1720 Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire

1675 Portuguese-Jewish synagogue opens in Amsterdam

1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam

1655 Middelburg Netherlands forbids building of synagogue

1250 Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue

1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue and set it afire


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