Shaare Hatikvah
I'm told this was the first Minhag Ashkenaz Shul in Washington Heights. Still going.
"Congregation Shaare Hatikvah – Ahavath Torah v'Tikvoh Chadoshoh is an Orthodox Synagogue founded in 1935 and located in Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan, by German-Jewish refugees"
Also from the website
"Our weekday morning minyan each day at 6:45 AM has successfully taken off. We are steps away from the bus station, subways, and the M98 bus. There's also lots of free street parking available. Check out our For Commuters Page for details."
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
More Gadolim on Rav Hirsch
"The Chasam Sofer's lifespan extended from the Sha'agas Aryeh and the Noda B'Yehudah, whom he knew in his youth, to Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch, whose Horeb he admired." (Chasam Sofer, Commentary on the Torah, Artscroll, p. xvi)
"Rav Yisroel (Salanter) had a great longing to become acquainted with Rabbi Hirsch and to learn his views on the means needed to consolidate traditional Jewry in Russia. He had great respect for the regenerator of German Jewry, and no one else was more deeply convinced of the desperate need of Russian Jewry for such a personality." Rabbi Naftoli Hertz Ehrmann, who arranged a meeting between these two giants in 1876 in Berlin. (2 Giants Speak, p. 6)
Rav Baruch Ber Leibowitz had such awe for R' Yisroel Salanter, who he knew from Kovno, that he would tremble whenever his name was mentioned. (from Artscroll bio on Rav Baruch Ber).
"Rav Yisroel (Salanter) had a great longing to become acquainted with Rabbi Hirsch and to learn his views on the means needed to consolidate traditional Jewry in Russia. He had great respect for the regenerator of German Jewry, and no one else was more deeply convinced of the desperate need of Russian Jewry for such a personality." Rabbi Naftoli Hertz Ehrmann, who arranged a meeting between these two giants in 1876 in Berlin. (2 Giants Speak, p. 6)
Rav Baruch Ber Leibowitz had such awe for R' Yisroel Salanter, who he knew from Kovno, that he would tremble whenever his name was mentioned. (from Artscroll bio on Rav Baruch Ber).
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Sunday, June 10, 2018
R' Chaim Kanievsky on keep minhag ashkenaz in Eretz Yisroel
R' Chaim Kanievsky on saying the prayer for rain and dew in Eretz Yisroel: "Each according to the custom of his forefathers."
תשובת מרן שר התורה הגרח"ק שליט"א על אמירת מוריד הטל ושמירת שאר מנהגי אשכנז בארץ ישראל, מפי נאמן ביתו הגדול הרה"ג ר' גדליהו הוניגסברג, הבוקר כ"ז בסיון תשע"ח:
"כל אחד לפי מנהג אבותיו"
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Where Synagogues Once Stood by photographer and filmmaker Judah S. Harris
"One Tisha B'Av afternoon in the late-80s, photographer and filmmaker Judah S.
Harris took a walk in Harlem in search of some of the synagogues that once
existed in this former Jewish neighborhood.
"Written a decade ago (2006), his essay "Where Synagogues Once Stood" documents his exploration of the places where synagogues once stood, both in New York City and also in Jerusalem, where the grandest of synagogues once welcomed an entire people.
""Visiting the places where synagogues once stood, where Jewish communities once thrived... can be one way of internalizing the meaning of Tisha B'Av, especially if the structures — their exterior architecture and Hebrew inscriptions — still remain visible but the life within them does not.""
"Written a decade ago (2006), his essay "Where Synagogues Once Stood" documents his exploration of the places where synagogues once stood, both in New York City and also in Jerusalem, where the grandest of synagogues once welcomed an entire people.
""Visiting the places where synagogues once stood, where Jewish communities once thrived... can be one way of internalizing the meaning of Tisha B'Av, especially if the structures — their exterior architecture and Hebrew inscriptions — still remain visible but the life within them does not.""
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