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Last Pinsk prayerhouse closed by police
Police shut down the last remaining Jewish prayerhouse in Pinsk.
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- Soviet police
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Murder of Morris Adler
On February 12, 1966, Richard Wishnetsky entered Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Michigan, during weekly Shabbat services and, brandishing a firearm, ordered everyone except Rabbi Morris Adler off the synagogue's bimah. After condemning the congregation, Wishnetsky shot Adler and himself.
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- Richard Wishnetsky
- Where
- Southfield, Michigan, United States
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Religious freedom guaranteed to non-Catholics in Spain
A referendum adopted an amendment to the Fuero de los Españoles granting religious freedom. Non-Catholics, including Jews, gained the right to maintain organized institutions, public worship and religious education.
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- Spanish government
- Where
- Spain
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Persecution and arrests of Jews in Damascus
Syrian authorities persecuted and often arrested Jews, particularly during the Eli Cohen trial in 1965 and the Six-Day War in 1967.
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- Syrian authorities
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Prohibition and closure of the Jewish cemetery
Authorities banned use of the Jewish cemetery from 1963 and closed it completely in 1969, forcing Jews to bury their dead in a section of the general cemetery.
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- Soviet authorities
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Demolition of the Makó synagogue
The synagogue of Makó was torn down in the late 1960s.
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- Unknown
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Jewish cemetery of Kishinev closed and desecrated
The old Jewish cemetery was halved for development and then fully closed in the 1960s, with tombstones damaged and destroyed.
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- Soviet authorities
- Where
- Chișinău (Kishinev), Bessarabia, Moldova
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Antisemitic attacks on Alabama Jews in the 1950s and 1960s
A wave of antisemitic attacks struck Jewish institutions in Alabama, including the firebombing of a synagogue in Gadsden and an attempted bombing of a Birmingham temple.
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- Unknown
- Where
- Alabama, United States
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Demolition of Jewish buildings in Mikulov under Communist rule
Apart from the Old Synagogue, the town's Jewish buildings were all demolished under the Communist regime.
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- Communist regime
- Where
- Mikulov, Moravia, Czech Republic
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20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt
20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt: exodus of Europeans from Egypt.
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- Unknown
- Where
- Egypt
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