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- Hungarian Jewish community reopened and rededicated the Rákospalota synagogue in Budapest.
- The building was originally constructed and dedicated in 1926 under Rabbi Michael Dushinsky.
- Under communist rule it served as a warehouse for the Hungarian National Library.
- Renovation, funded chiefly by philanthropist Igor Tulchinsky, lasted less than a year after the library moved.
- Rabbi Baruch Oberlander said the synagogue will operate as a prayer house and school.