A Chabad-affiliated synagogue and Jewish day school in Worcester, Massachusetts were spared from closure last week for non-payment of federal taxes, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency website reports today (January 9, 2013).
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) received no offers on January 4, after it put the building housing the Yeshiva Achei Tmimim synagogue and the Yeshiva Academy school up for auction.
"That was the news I was praying for," Rabbi Mendel Fogelman -- the school director -- told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette newspaper. "Obviously we have a long way to go. We'll have to wait and see if we can work out a deal with the IRS."
Last month, the IRS announced its intention to sell the building in central Massachusetts to cover the $472,000 in unpaid taxes owed by the synagogue and school. Fogelman launched a last-ditch effort to prevent the sale by starting an online fundraiser; however, the campaign has raised only about $50,000 in donations.
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