For Sale: Synagogue with Ties to Bob Dylan

Musician Bob Dylan Performs onstage during the 37th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Michael Douglas on June 11, 2009, in Culver City, Calif.

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NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Now on the market: the synagogue where Bob Dylan had his bar mitzvah.

The building in Hibbing, Mich., which is No. 8 on the Bob Dylan walking tour, is where 13-year-old Bobby Zimmerman celebrated the Jewish rite of passage.

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Zimmerman grew up to become Dylan, and the owners of the building, Brenda Shafer-Pellinen and her husband, Eric, are hoping that famous connection helps sell it.

Shafer-Pellinen tells the Duluth News Tribune that she has reached out to Dylan fans on websites such as expectingrain.com and dylanradio.com. The asking price is $119,000.

The building hasn't been a synagogue since the 1980s, when the congregation disbanded and the building was turned into apartments.

Shafer-Pellinen and her husband bought it in 2001 with the intent of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, but the Twin Cities couple hasn't been able to move north.

[miner69er]

Anyone with any knowledge of Bob Dylan knows he was from Minnesota, not Michigan. Seriously, it's not like there's an identically-named place in Michigan (such as Grand Rapids, which the first book about the 1980 Olympic hockey team used Michigan instead of Minnesota as hometown for Baker). Egregious errors by reporters are largely inexcusable in today's world, where search-engines can bring up millions of bytes in a tenth of a second. You wouldn't get away with calling a Christian a Muslim by mistake, or someone born in Hawai'i as being born in, say, Kenya? Oh, never mind. Jessica Derschewitz is now hereby commanded to attend the annual Dylan Days Festival in Hibbing, MINNESOTA in May 2011.

[reiner52]

Pretty sad when a reporter can't tell the difference between Minnesota and Michigan 'The building in Hibbing, Mich'