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Kiddush Friday Night (The other one)

Kiddush Friday Night (The other one)

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This was Chazan Frankel’s signature kiddush (composed by Cantor Abraham Katz of Amsterdam). On one of my other channels I have this as sung by a young budding Chazan in Erets. I took the performance and had the organ added by my friend Yehoshua Solomon (who is available for simchas…) and voila. Enjoy before the
Our Way in Tora im Derech Eretz

Our Way in Tora im Derech Eretz

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This video, third in a series, gives the history of Tora learning and pursuit of career in the community over 150 years. It also has alot of 80s tidbits- because, if you haven’t realized, I am stuck there. Finally, it adresses the comment of YGB in the previous video about the kehila and TIDE. In
Hirsch Part 2; The Ideas

Hirsch Part 2; The Ideas

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Three thinkers within the Orthodox community speak to Hirschian ideas in America today. Rabbi Dr. Moshe Miller whose doctoral thesis was on Rav Hirsch and is a professor of Judaic Stuudies at Touro College and teaches a course at Lander College for Women about R. Hirsch, Dr. Yitzchok Levine who writes on American-Jewish history for
Shaarei Hatikvah Part 4. A Chanukah Miracle

Shaarei Hatikvah Part 4. A Chanukah Miracle

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An emotional look at a shul that has meant so much to so many people and its will to continue. We have discussed the history of this institution in three parts, and in this final installment we see it through to this very day. Discusses Rabbi Avraham Gross ZtL, and the shul today under the
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Rav Hirsch. The Question

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Please watch until the very end…surprise ending asks all the tough questions. Don’t worry, my heart is in the right places. Please don’t vent in the comment section. The internet is large enough to vent elsewhere…
Sharei Hatikvah Part 3

Sharei Hatikvah Part 3

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From its heyday in the 50s and 60s until it took on a new role as the last of its kind. Tribute to Rabbi Abraham Krauss. Opening music by Seymour Silbermintz off a rare recording. /closing song:::: MIPAS Celtic Field – Patrick Smith, BMI. Some footage at the end lifted from the film “we were
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My Rebbe!

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A personal tribute to an influential teacher in our school, expressing in my own way some of what needed to be said upon his recent passing. The music is “Velvet” by “The 8th Day”, a song they wrote in tribute to their teacher.
Shaare Hatikvah Part 2

Shaare Hatikvah Part 2

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Rev. Walter Hes passed away this last year at the age of 101. He and our beloved Mr. Hellmann o.b.m might have been the last two remaining alumni of the famed Wurzburg Seminary. This video tells the story of the students who dreamed of becoming “lehrer” and the lives they built on these shores.
Rav Schwab and Mr. Harry Levi at Dinner 1985

Rav Schwab and Mr. Harry Levi at Dinner 1985

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Judische Eigenarte (Frankfurt Grammen)

Judische Eigenarte (Frankfurt Grammen)

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Halleluka Lewandowski (Corrected)

Halleluka Lewandowski (Corrected)

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For our community this piece tops anything ever written by anyone named “Handel”. And while this piece can be found many places online, we will always prefer it “our way”.
Burning the Chometz

Burning the Chometz

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Early Kajmo Torah Dedication

Early Kajmo Torah Dedication

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A few clips and then a speech. Some familiar Heights and Monsey faces here. Some of the video filmed by Mr. Fred Prince a’H.
Community History Intro

Community History Intro

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Studying the history of our community means knowing it from its earliest days. From Its North to its South. The places we’ve come from and the places we’ve moved to. Our shuls our culture and our shared history. It means coming 2gether and talking. New Series. Breuers 2gether.
Rav Schwab Ztl. Montage

Rav Schwab Ztl. Montage

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Sukkos/Hakafos

Sukkos/Hakafos

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Rav Gelley 1996 remembers R. Schwab

Rav Gelley 1996 remembers R. Schwab

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The Dinner is Here 2017

The Dinner is Here 2017

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Cong. Shaarei Hatikva. Part 1

Cong. Shaarei Hatikva. Part 1

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Here is a long-awaited beginning to what I hope will be a fruitful journey to the four corners of the neighborhood and to the various German kehillos they produced. Here we learn about the first Rav of Sharei Hatikvah and his previous position in Wurzburg. The project sent me down the path of learning about
Shachris 1974

Shachris 1974

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  From home movies of the day I entered Brith Avraham Avinu.
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Zachor

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From the four-part series on the “Daled Parshiyos”.
Yom Teruah Vlog

Yom Teruah Vlog

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Words of Rav Hirsch set to my own thoughts.  
Vlog 1. -Matbea shel aish-

Vlog 1. -Matbea shel aish-

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Parshas Shekalim

Parshas Shekalim

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Parshas Hachodesh

Parshas Hachodesh

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Parah and Piyutim

Parah and Piyutim

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Published on Apr 1, 2016 With the author of Shivchei Yeshurun – Rabbi Dovid Roth. A brief excursion through the background of this week’s additions to the Tefilos interspersed with the words of praise themselves. Important: I follow the Rabbinate of this Kehilla in psak and have a strong affiliation to its hashkafos. The nuances
Korbanos Vlog Vayikra/Pesach

Korbanos Vlog Vayikra/Pesach

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Published on Apr 19, 2016 Touches on korbanos and how we can relate to them.Articles mentioned are: 1) http://rabbisblog.brsonline.org/pleas… 2) http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/of-cou…
Taisi Psalm 119

Taisi Psalm 119

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Service

Service

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Piyut Shnei Zeisim Chanukah

Piyut Shnei Zeisim Chanukah

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A brief talk about the piyut by Rabbi Dovid Roth author of Shivchei Yeshurun spliced in with its incantation by Benno Weis aH- in the Frankfurt tradition. A British nusach is featured on KAYJ. A short and meaningful article was used in preparation found here: http://www.kayj.net/en/forum/minhogim…
Tribute to the Photographer

Tribute to the Photographer

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As Pesach cleaning and computer issues clog my schedule, I present here a tribute I made for another channel to K’vod Avi Morie Shlita – the owner of these precious archives. Please like.
The Chanukah Legacy

The Chanukah Legacy

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Although I am personally a fan of all our chazzonim, the late, beloved Ch. Frankel has become the icon of the candle lighting in our Shul. It is at this time of the year that we think of him as we behold the Menorah he faced in service for so many decades. Some of the

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Chupah KAJ ’86

Chupah KAJ ’86

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There must be many people in possession of a video like this one. Here is vintage choir with some old faces. Seen here is Mr. Bernard Stone  a’h a beloved choir baritone of yore. In the future I hope to post a chupah with our Chazonim as well.
Breslauer 50th Part 2

Breslauer 50th Part 2

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Rav Breuer – A Loving Tribute

Rav Breuer – A Loving Tribute

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Distributed at the Dinner of 1999. Fox Video Productions, with permission of Steve Fox.
Shachris 1974

Shachris 1974

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  From home movies of the day I entered Brith Avraham Avinu.
The Answer

The Answer

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Yom Teruah Vlog

Yom Teruah Vlog

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Words of Rav Hirsch set to my own thoughts.  
Hirsch Hakafos

Hirsch Hakafos

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Melaveh Malkah ’60s

Melaveh Malkah ’60s

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Mi Adir Speech

Mi Adir Speech

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Breuers 1974

Breuers 1974

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This is the flagship video of the collection. This film was produced by Manny Meyer Studios for the 1974 Breuer’s dinner- long before “videos” were shown at dinners. The film was converted to 1/2 inch tape for large screen thetre mode.. Narration by Mr. Jacob Breuer a’h. Original rare footage of the Shul in Frankfurt
Parah and Piyutim

Parah and Piyutim

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Published on Apr 1, 2016 With the author of Shivchei Yeshurun – Rabbi Dovid Roth. A brief excursion through the background of this week’s additions to the Tefilos interspersed with the words of praise themselves. Important: I follow the Rabbinate of this Kehilla in psak and have a strong affiliation to its hashkafos. The nuances

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Elul Days

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It feels like this month slipped away since so much of Elul was shared with the American summer vacation months. Until schools were underway (I am in Jewish Education), it was already a week until Rosh Hashanah. Let me add a note about our beautiful minahgim. We know that KAJ blows Shofar in Elul at Shacharis and Mincha. Three Tashrats are
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A Lesson Plan for a Tour of the Shul

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A few months ago a very idealistic and dedicated woman in our community contacted me as she was preparing to give a tour of our Shul to a Modern Orthodox day school from a nearby suburb. She only asked for some media for her tour (photos of the past rabbonim), but I gave her a
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TIDE in Eretz?

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(“Eretz” was the way many German Jews referred to Israel for short.) The story of Torah im Derech Eretz in Eretz Yisrael is a long and complex history that is bigger than me and this little blog.   Dr. Marc Shapiro – in his book on Rav Yechiel Y. Weinberg zt’l- recounts the story of the Hildesheimer seminary considering a
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An Approach to Lag BeOmer

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Tonight, in the neighborhood in which I now live, there will be bonfires to celebrate the Hilula Derashbi.  As children, we never heard about the Rabi Shimon element of Lag BeOmer. It was all about the talmidei Rabi Akiva and the bow & arrow games. Today ideas of kabbalah and chasidus have become more widely known and as we will become
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Tefillin, Sefira, and the Rav’s Yahrzeit

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See the picture above. This was Dad’s tefillin bag in an era when they looked like this. Because we share initials, I have begun using it for now.  On the recent Chol Hamo’ed, I davened in a local Brooklyn shul that davens Nusach Aschkenaz (Artscroll) and the Baal Tefilla wars Tefillin. I spent most of Davening counting the percentage of Tefillin wearers ad
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Veyismech …Ohavei Shimecha. Yet Another Thought

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Elsewhere, we have written extensively about the implications of the closing phrase of the kedushas hayom within the Shabbos Amida.  Specifically, the minhag is described as that of Frankfurt: ” Veyismechu vecho ohavei shimecha”. The firm halachic foundation and history that this nusach stands on was covered in the very first volume of Rabbi Hamburger’s
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Book Recommendation: The Shorter Works of Hermann Schwab

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  Recently, I had the great pleasure of reading an anthology of the smaller works of the famed popular historian, Mr. Hermann Schwab z’l. “Hermann Schwab. Historian of German Jewry: His Life and Shorter Works” is distributed by Feldheim Books. For full disclosure, I will mention that for a long time I have had a
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A Short Note on Shofar and a New Book

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I have been going through the book “The Shofar”, by our Kehilla’s ba’al toke’a, Rabbi Bentzion Ettlinger. It is a good read and a carefully written kuntres, as he describes it within. It is also comprehensive, and thorough, and bears the mark of years of experience. (I found the discussion about eating before Tekios most fascinating.) He does mention our minhogim,

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LogoThis website was designed to disseminate the photography of M.S. Meyer charting the history of the German-Jewish community in Washington Heights over 50 years. It contains videos of historical interest streaming from a cloud server so as to be accessible to those who have filtered YouTube from their computers. It contains important nusach recordings and a blog about minhag, history and ideology.

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