sentences:  However, congregation and rabbi were disappointed of each other so Newman returned to the United States in May 1988.On 25 February 1988 the GDR government reversed the property transfer of 1944, thus "Jüdische Gemeinde von Berlin" (East) held again property title to the Synagogue.However, as the long practice showed since 1945, it was not the property title, anyway discretionarily not respected by the communist East German rulers, which allows the de facto usage, but usage depended on the pure goodwill of the rulers.