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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/16667/full/16667/fears-of-attack-delay-jewish-center-s-opening/ <br /><br /> <b>Fears of attack delay Jewish center’s opening</b> <br /> Friday, October 26, 2001 | by <p>RECIFE, Brazil (JTA)—The opening of a Jewish center on the site of a 17th-century synagogue in Brazil has been indefinitely po </p> <br /><br /><p>"All the invitations for the inauguration were already sent out. We had to cancel it over the phone," said Bernardo Schvartz, an engineer who oversaw the renovation.<br /><br /> The impetus for the Jewish center, which is part of a neighborhood redevelopment project, came after remains of the synagogue's mikvah were found.<br /><br /> The second floor of the center, which is furnished with newly crafted period furniture, was rebuilt according to the synagogue's original specifications<br /><br /> Approximately 1,500 Jews live in Recife, which has two other functioning synagogues.<br /><br /> The synagogue was used between 1641 and 1654, when it served many in the Brazilian Jewish community.<br /><br /> After that time, the building housed Catholic institutions.<br /><br /> Much of the community fled in 1654 for the American colonies after the Portuguese ended Dutch rule in Brazil and told both Dutch and Jews to leave.<br /><br /> The center was funded by the Brazilian government, the city of Recife and the Joseph Safra Foundation.</p> <p> </p>

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