Montana Jewish Project President Rebecca Stanfel, left, and Jewish community member Erin Vang, right, leave the old synagogue in Helena, Montana, Thursday, Nov. 11,2021. The nonprofit Montana Jewish Project purchased the building, originally built as Temple Emanu-El in 1891, from the Helena Catholic Diocese, that had obtained the building in 1981. (AP Photo/Iris Samuels)
November 12, 2021
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November 12, 2021 4 p.m.
Helena synagogue building set to return to Jewish community
The Jewish community in Montana's state capital has not had a place to gather in 80 years. But a group of Helena Jews is set to change that by buying back the old synagogue that was built more than a century ago and sold soon after for $1.