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In God we trustYou are in: Stoke & Staffordshire > First Person > In God we trust > Sidney’s Jewish community  an old Synagogue Sidney’s Jewish communityMick Tucker As part of our Community Memories series we met Sidney Morris, the heartbeat and President of the Jewish community in Stoke on Trent. How many synagogues are there in North Staffordshire? Well, at the moment there aren't any. The last remaining synagogue does still stand in Stoke-on-Trent but it's now closed, boarded up and set for demolition. The handful of people still left in the area's orthodox Jewish congregation are now worshipping in Sidney Morris's living room whilst a new, smaller synagogue is being built in Newcastle.Ìý 82 year old Sidney has been the president of the congregation for some 40 years.Ìý As he guides us round the old synagogue, he tells us what the community means to him…
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