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Rabbi dies after 51 years at one synagogue

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Rabbi David J. Jacobs (right), who spent 51 years at Temple Beth El, the last active synagogue in Quincy, died Thursday at 81. In today's Globe, J.M. Lawrence reports:

He turned down offers to move to bigger synagogues and stayed with Temple Beth El as the congregation steadily shrank and other Quincy synagogues closed. "The people here didn't want me to go," he told The Patriot Ledger in a recent interview. "Whatever I did for all those years, that's what I have to back me up now."

(Photo by Michael Harrington.)

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Michael Paulson covers religion for The Boston Globe. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize in 2003, won the Mike Berger, Templeton and Supple awards in 2008, and is a four-time winner of the Wilbur Award.
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