The Spitalfields Great Synagogue was damaged, then done up, but by the 1970s it had fallen into disrepair.

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The building became known as the Spitalfields Great Synagogue.

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Another interesting addition to the festival is the usage of The Great Synagogue, a majestic space where the instrumental Apollo Ensemble will perform Baroque chamber music that was originally composed for Jewish liturgical services.

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Geller was scheduled to speak on April 13 at the Great Neck Synagogue in Great Neck, New York.

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By hosting her, they intoned, the Great Neck Synagogue would be guilty of propagating hate speech.

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In short order liberal rabbis Michael White and Jerome Davidson took over the opposition to Geller and launched a media campaign attacking her as a bigot and demanding that the Great Neck Synagogue cancel her speech.

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We don't get up every weekend and go to our church or synagogue or mosque or wherever else we might practice our beliefs and pay homage to the great tenets of the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party for that matter.

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