The Jews were kicked out of Spain in 1492 unless they were prepared to convert to Catholicism. Since that time few Jews have lived in Spain. Naturally many synagogues were left behind. Sadly, most of these synagogues were "converted" to churches. Many of those one-time synagogues are still to be found in Toledo although previously "converted" churches and no longer used as such. Now comes news [The Times on Line] that one of the historic synagogues in Toledo, still used as a Catholic church, is to be returned to the Jewish community in an exchange-deal struck with the Vatican
Only a gigantic bureaucracy could get away with spending of such dimensions - and the amazing waste involved in part of that ginormous spend. Think US Pentagon..... "From spending $150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in Afghanistan to blowing $2.7 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesn’t work, the latest revelations of waste at the Pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades. Other hot-off-the-presses examples would include the Army’s purchase of helicopter gears worth $500 each for $8,000 each and the accumulation of billions of dollars' worth of weapons components that will never be used. And then there’s the one that would have to be everyone’s favorite Pentagon waste story: the spending of $50,000 to investigate the bomb-detecting capabilities of African elephants. (And here’s a shock: they didn’t turn out to be that great!) The elephant research, of course, represe...
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