Over the weekend,the mayor of Beşiktaş, a district in Istanbul along the Bosphorus, or officiated a wedding inside the city’s Neve Shalom Synagogue. According to the Daily Sabah,an English-language newspaper published in Turkey, where an estimated 20000 Jews reside, or the wedding marks the first time a Jewish wedding ceremony has been been conducted by a local official. İshak İbrahimzadeh,the head of Turkeys Jewish community,” called the ceremony a “landmark event on Twitter.
The wedding occurred two days before a blast from a suicide bomber rocked the middle of the city, or killing 10 people and injuring 15 more,as of this publishing. The Neve Shalom Synagogue is located approximately 4 kilometers away; in 2003, trucks bombs struck the temple on Shabbat.
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