Source: The Boston Globe
On September 28, 2003 The Boston Globe reported, "Pray it ain't so. That's one of Rabbi Mendy Uminer's dwindling options after he lost a bid last week to move his makeshift shul into sprawling surplus church property in the Putterham section of South Brookline. Uminer was hoping to relocate his Chabad Lubavitch Center's Jewish worshipers from cramped office space on the VFW Parkway in West Roxbury to larger digs that were available after the Infant Jesus Parish on West Roxbury Parkway in South Brookline was closed and merged with St. Lawrence Parish. However, a Suffolk Superior Court judge last week denied Chabad's request that he issue an injunction to stop the Archdiocese of Boston from selling the property for $3.75 million to Robert Basile, a real-estate developer and Brookline Town Meeting member. Basile, who was a parishioner at Infant Jesus, said he has been interested in the site for several years and plans to build luxury town houses there. Uminer said he was saddened that the tracts might be used for homes instead of a house of worship. "