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The Islamic School of Seattle in 2007. Community figures hope to turn the property into a multifaith cultural center. (Screenshot/YouTube)
Members of the team seeking to renovate the former Seattle Talmud Torah building, now the Cherry Street Mosque. (Youtube/Screenshot)
From left: Jonathan Rosenblum of Kadima Reconstructionist Community, along with Koloud Tarapolsi and Samia El-Moslimany of the Cherry Street Mosque, are part of the group rallying to save the building and turn it into an interfaith community center. (Screenshot/YouTube)
The inside of the former Seattle Talmud Torah, now the Cherry Street Mosque, is in disrepair, and activists are looking to raise money to create an interfaith community center there. (Screenshot/YouTube)
In Seattle, a Jewish school turned mosque is bringing Jews and Muslims together
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The Islamic School of Seattle in 2007. Community figures hope to turn the property into a multifaith cultural center.
By Emily Alhadeff
(The Cholent via JTA) - Nearly 100 years after Seattle s first Jewish school opened, an effort is underway to restore its crumbling building - as a multi-faith center that can unite Jews and Muslims in the city.
So far, the effort has netted more than $40,000 toward a new roof for the building that once housed Seattle Talmud Torah. But that s a drop in the bucket for what a growing collective of Seattleites are hoping to generate to turn the Cherry Street Collective into a reality.
In Seattle, a Jewish school turned mosque is bringing Jews and Muslims together May 6, 2021 9:57 am Left: The Seattle Talmud Torah Class of 1949. (UW Special Collections/Washington State Jewish Archives); right: The Islamic School of Seattle in 2007. (Joe Mabel/Wikimedia Commons)
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(The Cholent via JTA) Nearly 100 years after Seattle’s first Jewish school opened, an effort is underway to restore its crumbling building as a multifaith center that can unite Jews and Muslims in the city.
So far, the effort has netted more than $40,000 toward a new roof for the building that once housed Seattle Talmud Torah. But that’s a drop in the bucket for what a growing collective of Seattleites are hoping to generate to turn the Cherry Street Collective into a reality.