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Magical Sundays with the Kids!
DAVID JACK
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ante, a small group of American
tourists also waited to go in.
It was the day before Yom Kip-
pur, and the tourists wanted to
attend services that evening and
the next day at this Sephardic
synagogue.
Even after receiving approval
to enter, visitors are scrutinized
by large television monitors and
detection equipment, and a guard
searched my handbag.
Once inside the synagogue,
Moishe the shamas, a man of 65
wearing a kippah over his gray-
ing hair, was very open in talking
about the synagogue and the trag-
ic 1986 incident that made his
shul an international headliner.
Neve Shalom, the largest syn-
agogue in Turkey, was once the
place of prayer for the Jews who
fled the Spanish Inquisition in the
15th century. By the end of the
19th century, a Jewish primary
school had been built on the site.
In 1951, the Neve Shalom Syn-
agogue officially opened, and by
1960 it was redesigned to give bet-
ter access to the street.
Today, services are held only
on Shabbat and major holidays.
The Orthodox synagogue has a
rabbi and a cantor, and weddings,
bar mitzvahs and funerals con-
tinue to be held there.
Inside the hall with 700 pol-
ished wood seats, there are
stained gl a ss windows and a high
dome ceiling, a bimah and a per-
manent wedding canopy — a
brass arch located at the rear of
the room.
The balconies for the women
are made of intricately carved
wood and reinforced concrete.
There are 11 synagogues in Is-
tanbul — 10 Sephardic and one
Ashkenazi — and approximate-
ly 17,000 Jews. Moishe the
shamas feels Neve Shalom was
targeted by terrorists in 1986 be-
cause it attracts the highest at-
tendance. In the attack, 23
worshippers and the two terror-
ists were killed.
Moishe points out the bullet
holes in the wooden seats and
takes me to the bimah where the
bomb exploded, leaving the mar-
ble in ruins.
Although damage was wide-
spread, restoration was complet-
ed in eight months, made possible
by donations from the commu-
nity and visitors.
So that the devastation would
be remembered, a brass insert
outlines the wall that was dam-
aged in the attack.
Under a rug, Moishe shows a
discolored marble area, now neat-
ly restored, that was destroyed in
the bombing.
Moishe also points out the
memorial plaque which lists the
names of the 23 congregants who
were massacred that Friday night
a decade ago.
Like the devastation, Neve
Shalom has been repaired but the
scars remain.