Congregation kehilath jeshurun google street view
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Reporter’s Notebook: Bennett went to KJ, a shul with a special place in his heart, for the holiday
NEW YORK – Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, known as KJ, is a 149-year-old Modern Orthodox synagogue on the Upper East Side. Its rabbi emeritus is the renowned and formidable Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, of a prominent New York rabbinical dynasty (and, full disclosure, this writer’s principal and teacher at the affiliated Ramaz Upper School).
KJ is also the synagogue that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attended while in New York for Shmini Atzeret on Monday night and a congregation that holds a special place in his heart.
With the High Holy Days and Sukkot festival days of the past month falling on weekdays, it was difficult finding a time for Bennett, who is observant and does not travel on Shabbat or festival days, to give an address to the UN General Assembly. In the end, he spoke on Monday morning, about nine hours before Shmini Atzeret began.
Unlike on his recent
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85th Street (Manhattan)
West-east street in Manhattan, New York
85th Street is a westbound-running street, running from East End Avenue to Riverside Drive in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States.
At Fifth Avenue, the street feeds into the 86th Street transverse, which runs east–west through Central Park and heads from the Upper East Side (where it is known as East 85th Street) to West 86th Street on the Upper West Side. West 85th Street resumes one block south of the transverse's western end.[3] It includes landmarks such as the Lewis Gouverneur and Nathalie Bailey Morris House at 100 East 85th Street, the sidewalk clock at East 85th Street and Third Avenue, the Yorkville Bank Building at 201–203 East 85th Street, Red House at 350 West 85th Street, and Regis High School.
History
[edit]In 1837, the Board of Aldermen of New York City initially voted not to approve, but subsequently approved, the opening of East 85th Street between Third Avenu
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Rediscovering Jewish Infrastructure: 2022 Update on United States Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Synagogues
This article – the third in a series – will document buildings which were originally erected as synagogues in the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and are still standing today. Calling attention to these structures focuses on the importance of maintaining and preserving them, either as houses of worship or alternative uses.
The first article in this series appeared in American Jewish History in March 1986 (Vol. 75, No. 3). It identified for the first time fifty-two (52) extant eighteenth- and nineteenth-century synagogue buildings in the United States. inom located many of these structures bygd searching downtown districts throughout the country. Touring former Jewish neighborhoods sometimes led to the sudden and exciting upptäckt of a former synagogue. Architectural styles, along with remnants of Judaic ornamentati