1.   Even Aristotle complained that communal property always looked worse than private lands.

2.   Eisenstat says that only in recent months have deficit-strapped Central European governments agreed to make good on some big pieces of communal property.

3.   Insurance, communal property once owned by Jewish and other religious groups and Holocaust education issues are also on the agenda.

4.   Many countries have returned communal properties, like synagogues, but private property is much harder to retrieve.

5.   The broken sewer cover, for instance, straddles a seam between Armenian and communal property.

6.   The discovery that ceremonial objects in synagogues might have been private, as opposed to communal property, was a revelation, Purin said in a telephone interview.

7.   The first priority for the World Jewish Congress is to reclaim communal property like synagogues, schools and hospitals as a way of reviving Jewish communities.

8.   The government of the Czech Republic recently reversed itself and passed a law that would return Jewish communal property in Bohemia and Moravia.

9.   Also in March, a commission began returning communal property to the Jewish community.

10.   Communal Jewish property such as synagogues, schools and cemeteries will be reinstated with no charge.