The following is via OnlySimchas.com:
After the only mosque in the small Gulf Coast city of Victoria, Texas mysteriously burned down on Saturday, the Jews of the only synagogue in Victoria handed the Muslims a key to their building.
Though there are several churches in the area, the Jews were the one to make the offer so the Muslims would have a place to worship while rebuilding.
“Everyone knows everybody, I know several members of the mosque, and we felt for them,” said Robert Loeb, the president of Bnai Israel, a Reconstructionist synagogue.
The community in Victoria held an interfaith event on Sunday in front of the mosque. Local donations and a GoFundMe page, helped the mosque raised over $900,000 in one day for rebuilding. The Jewish Anti-Defamation League’s southwestern arm also attended the event.
The causes of the fire are unknown, according to the New York Times.
“Jewish community members walked into my home and gave me a key to the synagogue,” Shahid Hashmi, a surgeon and one of the founders of the mosque, built in 2000, told the Times.
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If they’re Reform, the Muslims are possibly not even less Jewish than they are.
the destructionis dont believe in diety not to mention torah misini, islam belives in torah , the same diety.
At least the building is now being used to pray to G-d…
an Israeli Yid