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Article: Jewish Community Center Wants to Return Home
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 31, 1987
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When a few members of the Metropolitan Jewish Community Center in
Rockville broke away to establish a branch in the District in 1985,
they set up headquarters in a town house near Dupont Circle. Today
the center needs a larger facility, according to Arna Mickelson,
executive director of the D.C. Jewish Community Center.
"We'd like to move back to our old building," she said. "It's a
piece of romance, a piece of drama. We're interested in returning to
our old home."
The "old home" is the large building at 16th and Q streets NW
that served the area's Jewish community from 1926 to 1967, when the
center moved to Rockville to be closer to the people it served.
The building has been vacant for ...