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Group offers $50G to settle in Alabama town

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• Aug. 18, 2008: One of dozens of decorated peanuts is pictured outside the Dothan Civic Center in Dothan, Ala. Dothan is the home of the Blumberg Family Relocation Fund, which is offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 people that calls itself the 'Peanut Capital of the World.'
• Aug. 18, 2008: The American flag flies behind a statue of the Biblical figure Joseph downtown Dothan, Ala. The Jewish community is trying to lure Jewish families to the town.
• Aug. 18, 2008: The Temple Emanu-El is pictured in Dothan, Ala. Dothan is the home of the Blumberg Family Relocation Fund, which is offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 people that calls itself the 'Peanut Capital of the World.'
• Aug. 18, 2008: Traffic flows into Dothan, Ala. Dothan is the home of the Blumberg Family Relocation Fund, which is offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 people that calls itself the 'Peanut Capital of the World.'
• Aug. 19, 2008: Rabbi Lynne Goldsmith is pictured at Temple Emanu-El in Dothan, Ala. Dothan is the home of the Blumberg Family Relocation Fund, which is offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 people that calls itself the 'Peanut Capital of the World.' Goldsmith didn't know quite what to expect when she moved to Dothan a year ago to serve as pastor at Temple Emanu-El, which was founded in 1929.
• Aug. 19, 2008: Rob Goldsmith, executive director of Blumberg Family Jewish Community Services, discusses the grant program to attract Jewish families to Dothan during an interview at his office in Dothan, Ala.
• Aug. 19, 2008: Thelma Nomberg, longtime member of Temple Emanu-El, is pictured at her home in Dothan, Ala. Nomberg grew up in nearby Ozark, where she was the only Jewish school student in the 1940s. Now a widow, Nomberg has watched two of her four adult children leave town for Florida as Temple Emanu-El lost nearly half of its membership to fall to its current level of about 50 families. An effort is being made to lure Jewish families to Dothan.
• Aug. 19, 2008: Dothan, Ala., businessman Larry Blumberg is pictured in his office in Dothan, Ala. Blumberg is chairman of the Blumberg Family Relocation Fund, which is offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to Dothan, an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 people that calls itself the 'Peanut Capital of the World.'