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Silvyo Ovadya, leader of Turkey's Jewish community, makes a speech at Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, during a ceremony to mark the official reopening of the synagogue. Chief Rabbi Isak Haleva marked the reopening Monday by carrying a Torah scroll into the Neve Shalom synagogue, one of two synagogues bombed in a string of November 2003 suicide attacks that killed more than 60 people in Istanbul. The attacks were blamed on al-Qaida
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Silvyo Ovadya, leader of Turkey's Jewish community, makes a speech at Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, during a ceremony to mark the official reopening of the synagogue after it was bombed in a suicide attack in 2003. AP Photo
Silvyo Ovadya, leader of Turkey's Jewish community, makes a speech at Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey, during a ceremony to mark the official reopening of the synagogue after it was bombed iShow more
Turkey's Jews are feeling the heat of Erdogan's extremism
22 November, 2020
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