Picture Archive: Religion & Festivals

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Gateshead Synagogue, Bewick Road, opened in 1938. Sir Israel Brodie, who was Chief Rabbi of Great Britain from 1948 to 1965, and the first to receive a knighthood, was born in Newcastle in 1895.

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