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Temples Confront Changing Times
By Melissa Bykofsky | April 5th, 2012 | 
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- Published in: The Queens Courier
Melissa Bykofsky
HARD DECISIONS: Amid changing demographics, the congregations of the some Queens temples, like the Bayside Jewish Center, face a tough choice: close or merge.
Members of the Bayside Jewish Center remember a time when hundreds of local families attended Saturday services and more than 300 children enrolled in Hebrew school classes.
But these days, many wonder how much longer the 32nd Avenue temple can keep its doors open when a minyan, the group of 10 men required to hold a prayer session, is a struggle to form, and talks of a merger mean the congregation may have to sell its building.
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