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

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 […]

For many years the youth of the community would migrate to the Shabbos afternoon Mincha and Maariv services of the Agudas Yisroel of Upper Manhattan. In those days the youth would mingle in this way and it led to many marriages within the community. Today’s youth have the opportunity to spend formative years in advanced […]