Reply To: What is wrong with selling shul to Buddhist?

The sale we’re discussing here was just one year ago. The seller was not even the local shul, it was the parent organization and according to the city database all they got for it was $114,000!

Here’s what I read from a rabbi in Teaneck about selling a shul,

“There are more pointed considerations if the new use is to be as a place of worship. Since idolatry is forbidden to Jews and non-Jews as well, we may not only not join in idolatrous practices, we may not even participate in providing a home for them.”

He goes on further to say “To sell or lease a synagogue, then, does ask us to make some effort in advance of the sale to determine that the new occupant would not desecrate our values, religious and personal.”