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Oppenheimer’s Jewish travels begin in New York, where he attends bar and bat mitzvah services at Westchester Reform Temple in suburban Scarsdale, B’nai Jeshurun on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and Emanu-El on the East Side—and sneaks into the subsequent parties. He finds that the potential religious significance of the ceremonies is lost as rabbis and cantors focus on educating a mostly non-Jewish audience about the service itself. As Oppenheimer, who is currently editor of the New Haven Advocate, writes of the Westchester synagogue...
...Christian who wished to spend Christmas Eve at home. Although Christmas is increasingly a nondenominational festival (see ESSAY, page 33), other Milwaukee Jews joined in the holiday spirit when they learned of Rosen's gesture. Some 300 members of Congregation Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun volunteered to take over jobs with which they were reasonably familiar so that Christians could have the evening...
...Rabbi Kaplan was so miserable with the hidebound orthodoxy of his first congregation (Manhattan's Kehilath Jeshurun) that he asked the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary to recommend him to a life insurance company as salesman. He was persuaded to stick it out. and instead of insurance, he has been selling his own conception of Judaism ever since. It has been a long pull; Mordecai Kaplan was feted by 600 well-wishers last week on his 80th birthday. And his conception of Judaism has grown into a thriving movement: Reconstructionism...
...Vienna Jewish community instructed Chemist Goldschmiedt to present the Torah to an orthodox synagogue in the U. S. Without such instruction, the Torah would have been considered stolen property by good Jews. Mr. Goldschmiedt gave the scroll, wrapped in a striped prayer shawl, to Manhattan's Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, which had it examined meticulously by a scribe, lest a jot or a tittle had been added or erased. The Congregation planned shortly to have it reconsecrated, to invite Catholics and Protestants to the ceremony...
...reached Manhattan from Brazil and at once established the Spanish & Portuguese Synagog?North America's first. Until 1825 it was the only synagog in Manhattan. By that time sufficient German Jews had drifted into the community to organize Manhattan's first Ashkenazic congregation, B'nai Jeshurun.* Since then waves of northern and eastern Jews have spread over the U. S. and bred until last year U. S. Jews numbered some 4,230,000. But only 40,000 are Sephardic Jews, and most of these migrated from the Near East since the beginning of this century, driven by Turkish wars...