Photo and video montage for the closing of Gideon’s after a long history in Frankfurt and Washington Heights. A short clip taken with the express discontent of the Director of an excellent documentary on our community in the 1980s-here is a link to purchase the film https://www.amazon.com/We-Were-So-Beloved/dp/B000BVM23G

Part of a series of photographed events through the years. Music: The Hustle , Van mcCoy

A video of the same event elsewhere on this site. The video was taken by Mr. Fred Prince o.b.m. who owned a video camera in 1982. Pretty early! My Thanks to Mr. Allen R. for providing the tape.

Revelry. Decadent Yekeshe Purim Revelry. This film features many familiar faces. Also some nice historical scenes spliced in. Annotations mine. Skits include a trip to the keilim mikweh, the Chazonim in a boxing match, and the shochtim on strike! Music attribution used with purchased right: “Bob Bradley, Paul Mottram-Cheeky Charlie”, sound recording administered by: Audio […]

Lifted from our home movies, the students are seen leaving school and walking up Bennett to a party in Breslauer’s.

The unique procession in which the Torah is handed through the crowd from the youngest Levi to the oldest, and then from the youngest Kohen to the oldest. The one who donated it then places the Torah in the Aron. In this case, since it was a community project, Dr. Michael K. performed the Hachnasah […]

Rav Schwab expresses the idea of a new Sefer Torah and “pushes back”(8:49) on a disparaging remark made about the Kehillah. Cookie Parade follows. These videos recorded by Mr. Fred Prince z’l. Provided to me by Mr. Allen R.