tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31168265534080031032024-03-23T03:17:27.127-07:00Old Broadway SynagogueChevra Talmud Torah Anshei MaroviPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-66392993857077098222024-03-17T20:19:00.000-07:002024-03-17T20:19:52.132-07:00Celebrate Purim at Old Broadway!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Y6qYZmMoYzGwg74OJqIEdAmdttujBw7UWDINlzCBTMHoIIjN-1Vi8PSOYUlSr7qWNL1nNNAAFu-BXjaYeZo-z19kUtpgSHtrf7oM4mbPBhULHCpPvTNnVtbvN-x1Z_V3ZTf-DH3oJ2LWWtIKjMvHDy6M-8pBtwudrRDMhoGV5DyAqV_6u3JZWsI7Bp4/s940/Avi%20Pete%20PUrim%20Old%20Broadway.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Y6qYZmMoYzGwg74OJqIEdAmdttujBw7UWDINlzCBTMHoIIjN-1Vi8PSOYUlSr7qWNL1nNNAAFu-BXjaYeZo-z19kUtpgSHtrf7oM4mbPBhULHCpPvTNnVtbvN-x1Z_V3ZTf-DH3oJ2LWWtIKjMvHDy6M-8pBtwudrRDMhoGV5DyAqV_6u3JZWsI7Bp4/w400-h335/Avi%20Pete%20PUrim%20Old%20Broadway.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i><b>OL' BROADWAY PURIM PARTY!</b></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Featuring music by Avi Fox-Rosen (guitar/mandolin) & </span><span style="font-size: small;">Pete <span class="il">Rushefsky</span> (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) </span></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Saturday Night, March 23, 8:30PM Megillah Reading, 9:15PM Party </span><span style="font-size: small;">at the Old Broadway Synagogue </span><span style="font-size: small;">(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)</span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Admission Free!</b><br /><br />Join us for the Old Broadway Synagogue's Purim Service and Party (15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan) on Saturday, March 23, 2024. After reading the Megillah, we'll feature music by two of the contemporary Yiddish music scene's leading performers - Avi Fox-Rosen (guitar/mandolin) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer). Plus food, friends and fun! This program is presented by the Old Broadway Synagogue in partnership with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Yiddish New York.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The fun continues on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 8:00am with Shacharis, Megillah and a festive breakfast!</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Biographies of performers:<br /><br /><b>Avi Fox-Rosen</b> is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY, equally at home in theater, rock, Yiddish, klezmer or improvisational music worlds. He’s collaborated with many of the leading lights in Yiddish music over the last 20 years including Adrienne Cooper, Daniel Kahn, Sarah Gordon, Michael Winograd, Basya Schechter, Matt Darriau, Frank London and many others, including his brother, bassist and singer Benjy Fox-Rosen. Avi’s a member of .357 Lover, whose dynamics include power-chord riffs and densely-packed, narrative structures, a homunculus of Queen and Tiny Tim. As a songwriter, Avi makes music with a sardonic sense of humor, dense and dark lyrics, and enchantingly twisted melodies. New York Music Daily has heralded Avi’s work as “consistently excellent”.<br /><br /><b>Pete Rushefsky </b>(tsimbl) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.</span></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-24831504820774521532024-02-24T20:29:00.000-08:002024-02-24T20:29:44.951-08:00Klezmer Concert, March 3 at 7:30pm<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkI1ea9n1pb_y-g6aVZA6DhRC64ZiXMoYr3bL25iI6-XbSExYvk22WU6RTWppaxZ2W4GQTPNbypOHPYbOLcpH_4FWOUyvh1D39ujbFRgrxndCfb-fBdO-nKr-_qeWB-KwO6DcTw7Bgr0RJMLMl-BrZLBdr3wkQS-0vmwsdVMYje5zCD1TZ8tPt18UPUU/s940/Reisman%20Shulman-Ment%20Old%20Broadway%20-%20edited.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijkI1ea9n1pb_y-g6aVZA6DhRC64ZiXMoYr3bL25iI6-XbSExYvk22WU6RTWppaxZ2W4GQTPNbypOHPYbOLcpH_4FWOUyvh1D39ujbFRgrxndCfb-fBdO-nKr-_qeWB-KwO6DcTw7Bgr0RJMLMl-BrZLBdr3wkQS-0vmwsdVMYje5zCD1TZ8tPt18UPUU/w430-h360/Reisman%20Shulman-Ment%20Old%20Broadway%20-%20edited.jpg" width="430" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">The Old Broadway Synagogue, </p><p style="text-align: center;">Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Yiddish New York present:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>KLEZMER RETURNS TO OL' BROADWAY</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Abigale Reisman (violin), Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>& Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer)</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Sunday, March 3, 7:30pm at the Old Broadway Synagogue</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Suggested donation: $10</b></p><p>Join us as klezmer music returns to the Old Broadway Synagogue (15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan) at 7:30pm on Sunday, March 3, 2024. We'll be featuring three of the contemporary klezmer scene's leading performers - Abigale Reisman (violin), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) and Jake Shulman-Ment (violin). A rare opportunity to see three of klezmer's leading string musicians performing together in a special program of klezmer melodies new and old. This program is presented by the Old Broadway Synagogue in partnership with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Yiddish New York.</p><p><b>Biographies of performers:</b></p><p>One of the Boston area's leading klezmer musicians, <b>Abigale Reisman</b> (violin) has established herself as an expressive and thoughtful fidl player with a lot to say. She is particularly interested in mimicking the human voice through the violin and connecting her playing to the rhythms and accents of the Yiddish language. Abigale is a performer, composer, and arranger with the International Jewish Music Festival award winning band, Ezekiel’s Wheels Klezmer Band. She regularly performs in a duo with renowned klezmer scholar and performer Hankus Netsky. Abigale is also a co-founder of Thread Ensemble, an experimental trio that creates music out of interactions with their audiences. She recently received The Iguana Grant from Club Passim to create a series of videos showcasing the klezmer violin. Abigale earned her Bachelor’s degree at The Manhattan School of Music in Classical Violin Performance and went on to receive her Master’s degree at The New England Conservatory in Contemporary Improvisation. Abigale lives by the sea with her two Hemingway cats and her husband Charles.</p><p><b>Pete Rushefsky</b> (tsimbl) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.</p><p><b>Jake Shulman-Ment</b> (violin) is at the helm of a new generation of Klezmer and Yiddish music performers. He tours and records internationally in addition to being a widely sought-out teacher of the klezmer fiddle tradition at festivals around the globe. He collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar, and has lived and traveled in Hungary and Greece, learning traditional violin styles. In 2018 he received the prestigious NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts. He was a featured subject of Csaba Bereczki’s full-length documentary film Soul Exodus, and appears on HBO’s Succession, Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman, and a host of other film and theater productions. Jake’s debut solo album, A Redele (A Wheel) (Oriente Musik, 2012) was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award. His new group, Midwood, released its first album, Out of the Narrows, (Chant Records) in May 2018</p><p></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-41953756934274467792023-11-30T20:29:00.000-08:002023-12-05T05:58:45.433-08:00Chag Urim Sameach!<div style="background-color: #ffcc33; padding: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Please join us for a</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Freylikhn Chanukah Simchah</i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">at the</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Old Broadway Synagogue</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">With latkes, sufganiyos and the rocking music of...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Lauren Brody (accordion) & </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQm-_9O0m3Q8Oe6L0w8mMTHTHF81japFGid_b37a1CT5ZOyooa_yooh4mUqeRP33ETDrIQGwd46_C0A7tAe-EHSohnNp7F1pS7-KHB2jk1KGKUuiG9uAIc8SOzjf9j05uTkwUUfqAB79_EmfZ142jnzSIznCxI1js2EpJ008cdBciPP955SX6kxoYqVRc/s940/Lauren%20Brody%20Pete%20Rushefsky%20Old%20Broadway%20-%20edited.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQm-_9O0m3Q8Oe6L0w8mMTHTHF81japFGid_b37a1CT5ZOyooa_yooh4mUqeRP33ETDrIQGwd46_C0A7tAe-EHSohnNp7F1pS7-KHB2jk1KGKUuiG9uAIc8SOzjf9j05uTkwUUfqAB79_EmfZ142jnzSIznCxI1js2EpJ008cdBciPP955SX6kxoYqVRc/w458-h225/Lauren%20Brody%20Pete%20Rushefsky%20Old%20Broadway%20-%20edited.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Saturday, December 9, 7:30pm</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>at the Old Broadway Synagogue</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Free Admission</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Sponsored by </span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;">the </span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Old Broadway Synagogue, State Senator Cordell Cleare</span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;">and Yiddish New York</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;">Join us for a hopping Hanukkah Party at the Old Broadway Synagogue. There will be food, good cheer, not-so-competitive dreydl-spinning, great music and wonderful people sharing the holiday spirit. Music will be provided by klezmer revival pioneer Lauren Brody (accordion) and tsimbl (cimbalom/ hammered dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Biographies of performers:</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Lauren Brody (accordion) is an accordionist, singer, researcher, professional piano tuner/technician and Fulbright scholar from New York City. She is a pioneer of the klezmer music revival in the United States and a founding member of the groundbreaking band “Kapelye”, formed in 1979. She has toured, recorded and appeared on TV and film with Kapelye, and with the seminal all-female ensemble “Mikveh”. Lauren has played the with The Klezmatics, Andy Statman, Michael Winograd, David Krakauer, Alicia Svigals, Frank London, Merlin and Polina Shepherd and many other klezmer luminaries. She was a trailblazer in the domestic Balkan music scene and was the first female gadulka player in the United States. Lauren was an original member of the first Bulgarian traditional folk orchestra “Pitu Guli”, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1970 and has taught and performed at EEFC’s Balkan Camp, Klezkamp, KlezCalifornia, KlezKanada, Ashkenaz, Yidstock, Yiddish New York. Lauren was the recipient of a Bulgarian Government stipend to study Bulgarian folk music during the Communist period, from 1971-73, at the Bulgarian Conservatory of Music in Sofia. As a Fulbright scholar to Bulgaria in 1990 she conducted research on the commercial recording industry and folk music, and released two acclaimed reissues of 78 rpm recordings. Lauren continues to perform, with a particular accent on composing new music for her own Balkan/Klezmer-inspired solo project “Lauren Brody’s Accordion Bytes”, as “Tsoyber” with Yiddish singer Susan Leviton, and with the Bulgaria-based accordion duo Brody-Stoikov.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.<br /></span><br /></div> </div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com015 Old Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA40.8153241 -73.957150312.505090263821153 -109.1134003 69.125557936178836 -38.800900299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-59716052559605889682023-09-04T19:31:00.001-07:002023-09-07T11:57:54.850-07:00Selichos and High Holidays at the Old Broadway Synagogue, 5784<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="background-color: #254117; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: yellow;">Minchah and Maariv (First night) 6:47pm</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="background-color: #004a4a; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: yellow;"><br /></span><span style="color: yellow;"><b>Saturday, September 16, 2023</b></span><br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com015 Old Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA40.8151663 -73.957024912.504932463821156 -109.1132749 69.125400136178854 -38.800774899999993tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-89704416964107772302023-07-25T20:25:00.006-07:002023-07-25T20:28:45.629-07:00Zikhronah li-Vrakhah: Pearl Ziffer Diamond<div style="background-color: #fadbd8; padding: 10px;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dear Friends,</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pearl Ziffer Diamond, who grew up in the Old Broadway Synagogue, passed away earlier this year. Matthew, one of her children, sent the following sketch of Pearl's life. May her memory be for a blessing!</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pearl Ziffer Diamond passed away peacefully on January 30, 2023 just three weeks shy of her 98th birthday. She was a treasured mother, grandmother, aunt, friend and revered matriarch of her family for decades. Pearl lived a Jewish life punctuated by a kosher home, celebrations of every Jewish holiday and presided over a family defined by her haimische warmth, good humor and abundant love.</span></p><div><div class="gmail_quote"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Born Pearl Ziffer on February 24, 1925 to her loving parents, Louis and Sarah Ziffer, she was their youngest child, basking in the adoration of her older brothers Yossi and Irving and her sister, Beatrice. A member of Old Broadway Synagogue from birth, Pearl had a lively childhood on nearby Vinegar Hill. She jumped rope avidly, played basketball (despite being five foot two inches tall) and made lifelong friends among all the children of her neighborhood.</span></p><div dir="auto"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieRqIoEsv8Sy8oPmza3hikRl14O38QUOLEbBH7INxsIy_DRBsWf5Zsqm2jByDy9SBlkSOm56tJAtmLPGTAx0i_M38MjpsaBiHfHzwKOM_QerYMDe2FhiEOUEa7w7BnPrSo9RXi_iWxwQ2fE98fk1crIGd8I0b61HTjZTDtuA4hRkRnuXHNr3Gfl1p_jHE/w300-h400/Pearl%20and%20Irwin%20Diamond%201940s.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pearl and Irwin Diamond, 1940s</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="clear: right; color: black; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></span></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">During World War II Pearl met a handsome soldier stationed at a school on her block, Irwin Diamond. They dated and, after he returned from Europe and recovered from his war wounds, they married, settling in Queens. She loved her new name, Pearl Diamond.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">They became the parents of three extremely lucky children, Dennis, Matthew and Cori-Sue. As the years passed Irwin and Pearl became the acknowledged Matriarch and Patriarch of their extended family. Their home was filled with laughter, delight, warmth and generosity. Every celebration was hosted there, including Seders, Purim, Thanksgiving, and Hanukah. It was a joy to live through.</span></p><div dir="auto"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgugpXacAJDihFO8I7G3VeRLbwNp6GsBx1-tqazL-cPGyd8bGikgbtB6tTuZhrWbEpF4PWXwH-No52NTUTFj-eA9O9Y1JiscKgKrACoqZNv8wkJ7SZ_kwpsTuzm4OhzXk5_6KpNDMm9HTyvKcVM7rqNmel3HiZ7eL4UENzBN4922Zj8Bsko_wvJ7ZCET_M/w400-h300/Pearl%20Diamond%20with%20Dennis,%20Cori-Sue%20and%20Matthew.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pearl with Dennis, Cori-Sue and Matthew </td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>In 1966 Pearl’s mother, Sarah, suffered a debilitating stroke rendering her paralyzed and unable to speak. Rejecting the mediocre care given by the nursing homes of that time, Pearl and Irwin created a hospital room in their home where her mother was cared for preciously for four years until she passed peacefully. It was, quite honestly, a saintly act.</p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Eventually, after Irwin’s passing, Pearl moved to Atlanta to be near her son and daughter and grandchildren. In her heart this lifelong New Yorker never left New York City. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Magically, and deservedly, Pearl never had a real sickness in her life. Literally, she was out at a restaurant having dinner until two nights before her passing. Until the end she was lively, conversational and kept track of every family member, including what each member was getting for Hanukah. She also maintained her membership in Old Broadway synagogue through the end.</span></p></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAslGA9JcW8l88gpmSl0JciSQM8EeG_9-SjDHUK3D9YhX9VwUsPl95q7wagfLalsunt3eQm5rB_1O701OYXXf7g2XSnXNUjqbNPue6ia-BWVySPk7ZJUxOVkFeIgK7LR4TUlLwdDjhwyeRWokB0P40HCmKNbShd7ewrw6sSZpyDbOyRV90oNzN0YmQ8UM/w300-h400/Pearl%20Diamond%20at%20her%2095th%20birthday%20party.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pearl at her 95th birthday party</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pearl Ziffer Diamond was treasured throughout her life and will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered for many decades to come.</span></div></div></div>
</div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-3979795963642021352023-06-23T15:07:00.004-07:002023-06-23T15:09:01.499-07:00Rabbi Avi Heller on Hilkhos Shabbos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPys9vfXs1eoI4uFd9z-ykq6l3uJhHQTYDhAs_dCbj3vduO4FUep_KrD83JxsTD1SOuNLFdg6KSuLIUhcsVEXCKMjZAJjPFSEcq8HnpMBpvhsMNEQ95_S7M41OAj6DfNFVGLiLaJvntX5hQuHxuGZrTfP_3APxweo7ycTKAocz_Ei1YvK8hE4c9Eag9vw/s2056/Avi%20headshot%202015%20%20-%20edited%20(2).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPys9vfXs1eoI4uFd9z-ykq6l3uJhHQTYDhAs_dCbj3vduO4FUep_KrD83JxsTD1SOuNLFdg6KSuLIUhcsVEXCKMjZAJjPFSEcq8HnpMBpvhsMNEQ95_S7M41OAj6DfNFVGLiLaJvntX5hQuHxuGZrTfP_3APxweo7ycTKAocz_Ei1YvK8hE4c9Eag9vw/s2056/Avi%20headshot%202015%20%20-%20edited%20(2).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2056" data-original-width="1373" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPys9vfXs1eoI4uFd9z-ykq6l3uJhHQTYDhAs_dCbj3vduO4FUep_KrD83JxsTD1SOuNLFdg6KSuLIUhcsVEXCKMjZAJjPFSEcq8HnpMBpvhsMNEQ95_S7M41OAj6DfNFVGLiLaJvntX5hQuHxuGZrTfP_3APxweo7ycTKAocz_Ei1YvK8hE4c9Eag9vw/w268-h400/Avi%20headshot%202015%20%20-%20edited%20(2).jpg" width="268" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Please join us for a three part exploration of the Halachos of Shabbos with master educator, Rabbi Avi Heller. </b></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Each shiur will take place after 8:00am Shacharis at the Old Broadway Synagogue and will include breakfast. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>July 2: "A Holistic Approach to Hilchot Shabbat." </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>July 16: "Building and Destroying (boneh and soter) on Shabbat." </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>July 23: "Some practical issues related to cooking (bishul) on Shabbat." </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are not charging for this series although we would be happy to have a sponsor so that we could present it in memory or in honor of a loved one. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We hope you will join us!</span></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-1423535111202193182023-05-25T15:40:00.002-07:002023-05-25T15:40:55.703-07:00<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9hQ29KDA7Yaj3kUM-rZFwVQD_7OtDLRbij8bQ9u2YDaw3cG2phf2Pw7oOLNe-ZStfSGZ6_O0O1XggkEsHAN3HOm1ZL2FoibxB41o_LkViuaEYAa63bWdibir0UIsYIoTb-zU8NMOkFBaYEJN87CuD1Y07fjvSy_YE2SArk_J5TrdJnc6kt-FQHQGv/s940/Lisa%20Matt%20Pete%20202306%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9hQ29KDA7Yaj3kUM-rZFwVQD_7OtDLRbij8bQ9u2YDaw3cG2phf2Pw7oOLNe-ZStfSGZ6_O0O1XggkEsHAN3HOm1ZL2FoibxB41o_LkViuaEYAa63bWdibir0UIsYIoTb-zU8NMOkFBaYEJN87CuD1Y07fjvSy_YE2SArk_J5TrdJnc6kt-FQHQGv/w400-h335/Lisa%20Matt%20Pete%20202306%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Old Broadway Synagogue, Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Yiddish New York present:</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Grammy-winning musicians Lisa Gutkin (violin) & Matt Darriau (clarinet/kaval) of The Klezmatics with Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">KLEZMER NIGHT ON OL' BROADWAY</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sunday, June 4, 7pm at the Old Broadway Synagogue</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Suggested donation: $10</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Biographies of performers:</span></p><p><b>Lisa Gutkin </b>(violin) - Grammy Award-winning violinist/composer, singer, actor, and composer Lisa Gutkin is best known as a member of the acclaimed Klezmatics, and most recently for her musical score, performance, and music direction in the two time Tony award-winner, Indecent.</p><p>Lisa has had a storied career that reflects the eclectic nature of her life, passion, and creativity. A cameo performance in Sex and the City, a seat in Sting’s Broadway band for The Last Ship, a CD of original songs produced by John Lissauer, and scores for two of Pearl Gluck’s films have taken her a long way from her beginnings as back up musician to the Fast Folk songwriters’ collective. Praised for her “hauntingly emotional” vocals by the L.A. Times, she has co-authored songs with Anne Sexton, Maggie Dubris, and Woody Guthrie. A MacDowell and Norton Stevens Fellow, Lisa's song “Gonna Get Through This World”, co-written with Woody Guthrie, was described by Pete Seeger as “a piece of genius”.</p><p><b>Matt Darriau</b> (clarinet, kaval) - Grammy-winning composer and reed player for the Klezmatics and the Paradox Trio, Matt has had an enormous influence on both the Balkan and Yiddish music revivals. His current and past projects have included tribute to Yussef lateef ( Yo Lateef); Duke Ellington (Ballin' The Jack); Celtic music (Cetlic Eclectic) and many more.</p><p>Matt was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the past 15 years by Jazziz Magazine for bringing Balkan rhythms and melodies into jazz. He has collaborated and performed with luminaries such as Gunther Schuller, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, George Schuller, Theodosii Spassov, Mark Feldman, David Byrne, Marc Ribot, Roberto Rodriguez, Itzhak Perlman, Ken Butler, Ben Folds Five and many others in the New York and world scene.</p><p><b>Pete Rushefsky</b> (tsimbl) is an award-winning performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, Yale Strom and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture</p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-67416034290840250572023-03-27T20:29:00.018-07:002023-03-27T20:33:02.472-07:00Passover Message<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFOQwcUbmCE00FVGoPC15GyVje27z6I2xrvTOdbUqzTGNm_E1c7MQ5-RVB4M3gKrk48_4QKQr94IUK6glrYKiA2RhRvenVS_e_FG0Ww5apm0kvZ6yocLlH1PihiL4KEo_280wKo20tNAn7NJV4UJyzNG7bZMFS3E8LSv7oTw8hbo2mkRKfXsG5NDCJ/s422/OBS%20Facade.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFOQwcUbmCE00FVGoPC15GyVje27z6I2xrvTOdbUqzTGNm_E1c7MQ5-RVB4M3gKrk48_4QKQr94IUK6glrYKiA2RhRvenVS_e_FG0Ww5apm0kvZ6yocLlH1PihiL4KEo_280wKo20tNAn7NJV4UJyzNG7bZMFS3E8LSv7oTw8hbo2mkRKfXsG5NDCJ/w215-h320/OBS%20Facade.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #9dcec7; padding: 10px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #22223b; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Nissan 5783<br /></span><span style="color: #22223b; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">March 2023</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #22223b; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #22223b; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Dear
Friend,</span></p>
<p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>I
hope this letter finds you and your family well. The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>haftarah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
for </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Shabbos
Chol Ha-Moed Pesach </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
is Ezekiel’s famous and enigmatic prophecy of the “dry bones.”
God shows Ezekiel a valley full of dry bones. He instructs Ezekiel to
“prophesize” to the bones three times. The first two times, God
fulfills the prophecies, reconstituting the bones into skeletons,
then into bodies and subsequently breathing life into them. The third
prophecy, which Ezekiel delivers after the people complained that
their bones are dry and that their hope is lost, is that God will
open up their graves and bring them to the Land of Israel.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>The
rabbis in the Gemara, Sanhedrin 92b, discuss whether this passage was
a parable or if it described something that actually happened. Rabbi
Eliezer, the son of Rabbi Yosi Ha-Galili, said that the dead that
Ezekiel revived made </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>aliyah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
to the Land of Israel, married, and had sons and daughters. Rabbi
Yehudah ben Beteira said that he was a descendant of one who was
resurrected. The Gemara also discusses who these people were. One
opinion is that they were members of the tribe of Ephraim, who left
Egypt prematurely, before Moses, and were slaughtered. Another
opinion is that they were the people who denied the idea of
resurrection. “Rabbi Yirmeyah bar Abba says that these were people
in whom there was not even the moist residue of a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>mitzvah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>…”
In other words, they were not the most righteous or worthy people,
and yet God brought them back from the dead.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Pesach</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
celebrates the redemption from Egypt; it is also traditionally seen
as the time of the future redemption. Yitzchak Abravanel, the late
15th, early 16th century exile from the Spanish court and
commentator, notes that the resurrection and return to the land of
Israel will be for all Jews, both the righteous and the wicked,
although the latter will be judged. God will not abandon us.
Ezekiel's prophecy encouraged our ancestors during the Babylonian
exile and should encourage us as well. God can bring and will bring
redemption, but we need to do our part. We should not be so devoid of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>mitzvos</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
as to be dry bones. Moreover, as bad as things may appear, we should
never give up hope, since ultimately, God will be there for us and
will restore us. As we prepare ourselves for Passover we should use
these words to energize ourselves to meet and overcome whatever
challenges lie ahead.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>We
had a good fall at Old Broadway. The holidays, beginning with
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>Selichos</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
led by Orrin Tilevitz through Rosh Hashanah with Rabbi Reuven Hoff
and Yosef Tannenbaum were lovely. Sukkos and Hoshanah Rabba also went
well. Attendance has been improving at all services. Moshe Jennings
discusses the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>parashah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
every Friday night and Rafi gives an in-depth </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>derashah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
every Shabbos morning. Our Women’s Rosh Chodesh Group has been
meeting monthly under the leadership of Rhonda Taylor Ramsuer and
Laura Radensky. Rabbi Avi Heller has been giving excellent </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>shiurim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
each month with topics such as “Insights into Parashas Vayera,”
“Vigilante Justice: When Can You Take the Law Into Your Own Hands?“
“Encountering God in the Prayers of the Avos,” and “Character
Development in the Megillah.” We had a very lively Chanukah
celebration with arts and crafts and the accordionist Aron Gershman,
and we had a very successful Purim with live music at night and a
very thoughtful </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>shiur</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
in the morning. This fall we also partnered with the Center for
Traditional Music and Dance and hosted five well-attended klezmer
concerts.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As
spring approaches we are looking forward to celebrating Passover and
our annual planting of our courtyard garden, organized by Dale Brown,
on May 21st. Dale is also organizing our annual congregational visit
to the Riverside Cemetery, on June 25th. We are currently taking a
break from our klezmer series as we approach Passover and the Omer
period. We look forward to continuing the series after Shavuos in
late May.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Our
building is approaching its hundredth anniversary – the cornerstone
for our synagogue was placed in fall, 1923. We are making plans so
that our shul can be as well used in its next century as it has been
in its first century. Our long term goals are to upgrade the
electrical system, restore the walls (some of which had elaborate
decorative schemes) and restore our tin ceiling. Shorter term
projects include reinforcing the Kiddush Room floor, strengthening
the two staircases and restoring the lobby’s tile floor. We hope to
report more on these initiatives in subsequent letters.</span></p>
<p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>Your
support has enabled us to do all that we have done. With your help,
we will continue, God willing, to be a warm spiritual home and a
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><i>makom
Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>
in the spirit of Rabbi and Mrs. Kret, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span lang="hi-IN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span>זכרונם
לברכה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span>.
We are grateful for your support and hope that we will continue to be
worthy of your assistance going forward.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Warm
wishes for a sweet and kosher Pesach</span></p><p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></p><div style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Paul Radensky<br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">President</span></div><p class="western" style="color: #22223b; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p></div> Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-73940140699405839862023-03-01T20:03:00.004-08:002023-03-01T20:44:52.578-08:00Purim Maariv, Megilah and Music<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0OnTxrpm5wNscsdy862CIj4gfE8mKF2A13gBxIr7tqOi-5DbnwA1PeqhAF0lxUjvQ0d2CyGeTgyWn8g6UmJzPbhOMbLwMvwx1_VatIDMa8Ub34Hxf9FjXn8GPxP2VBRiEwmog1rTgK8O9bRvkOnNdV611NMEFDoMdDL_kh2xq4AwpUbXorzUHz_r/s940/Pete%20and%20Ira%20at%20Old%20Broadway.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0OnTxrpm5wNscsdy862CIj4gfE8mKF2A13gBxIr7tqOi-5DbnwA1PeqhAF0lxUjvQ0d2CyGeTgyWn8g6UmJzPbhOMbLwMvwx1_VatIDMa8Ub34Hxf9FjXn8GPxP2VBRiEwmog1rTgK8O9bRvkOnNdV611NMEFDoMdDL_kh2xq4AwpUbXorzUHz_r/w400-h335/Pete%20and%20Ira%20at%20Old%20Broadway.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Please join us for our annual Purim Simchah at the Old Broadway Synagogue, Monday, March 6th at 6:25pm. We will daven Maariv followed by the Megillah and a Purim party! $10 suggested contribution.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is more about the performers:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Pete Rushefsky </b>(tsimbl) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.</span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Ira Khonen Temple</b> (piano, accordion) is a multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and embedded cultural organizer. Recent credits include accordionist for Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and music director of Indecent at the Weston Playhouse, Great Small Works’ Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls, and the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee Purimshpil. Ira was a founder of the radical-traditional Yiddish music group Tsibele.</span></span></p><div><br /></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-2926483119235387392023-02-01T20:04:00.007-08:002023-02-07T20:07:24.539-08:00KLEZMER NIGHT on OL' BROADWAY<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPx9Prc3dQBFOENkDtcAnEDJjusHNucUuipu9LKBI9K8oVkmhS7TTu2HN6HDa8ocWVc-NAEqXQWdGZ2WqvrPt4ukNNnzOxHXgbK-z4vyNZYMLyT7uamjQyjshB3Vr5Zww8u6tWtQznuXSGFDcM01XVmXXFdSacpQnO_hO1c7WWfsEc3aXxva7Z2Ne/s940/Raffi%20Jake%20Pete%20Old%20Broadway%202-11-23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPx9Prc3dQBFOENkDtcAnEDJjusHNucUuipu9LKBI9K8oVkmhS7TTu2HN6HDa8ocWVc-NAEqXQWdGZ2WqvrPt4ukNNnzOxHXgbK-z4vyNZYMLyT7uamjQyjshB3Vr5Zww8u6tWtQznuXSGFDcM01XVmXXFdSacpQnO_hO1c7WWfsEc3aXxva7Z2Ne/w400-h335/Raffi%20Jake%20Pete%20Old%20Broadway%202-11-23.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><div style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="ii gt" id=":24i" jslog="20277; u014N:xr6bB; 4:W251bGwsbnVsbCxbXV0." style="background-color: color: #222222; direction: ltr; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><div class="a3s aiL" id=":24j" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: hidden;"><div id="m_-6743514626821510303ydp6d5075fyahoo_quoted_6333417944"><div style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div><div id="m_-6743514626821510303ydp6d5075fyiv2349851608"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Color UI NotoColorEmoji", "UI EmojiSymbols"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>The Old Broadway Synagogue, </i></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Yiddish New York </i></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>present:</i></span></span></span></span></p><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Color UI NotoColorEmoji", "UI EmojiSymbols"; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">TURN UP THE HEAT with KLEZMER!</span></p><span face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Jake Shulman-Ment (violin), Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) & Raffi Boden (cello)</span></span><span face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Saturday, </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">February 11</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, 8pm</span></span><span face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">at the Old Broadway Synagogue</span></span><span face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />Suggested donation: $10</span></span><span face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18.67px;"><br /></span></span><span face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 18.67px;"><br /></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Join us for </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">new klezmer music series at the Old Broadway Synagogue (15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan) at 8pm on Saturday night, </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">February 11</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, 2022. We'll be featuring </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">three </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of the contemporary klezmer scene's leading performers - </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer), Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) & Raffi Boden (cello). </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Join the trio for a night of rediscovered melodies, newly-composed Jewish melodies, Hasidic spirituals and rollicking dance tunes.</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; color: #141827; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This program is presented by the Old Broadway Synagogue in partnership with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Yiddish New York</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; color: #141827; font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Color UI NotoColorEmoji", "UI EmojiSymbols"; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; color: #141827; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please stay after the concert for nosh and an opportunity to meet others!</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Color UI NotoColorEmoji", "UI EmojiSymbols"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; color: #141827; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Biographies of performers:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Color UI NotoColorEmoji", "UI EmojiSymbols"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Pete Rushefsky </b></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(tsimbl</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>tsimbl</i></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Color UI NotoColorEmoji", "UI EmojiSymbols"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span face="Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,Apple Color Emoji,Segoe UI Emoji,NotoColorEmoji,Segoe UI Symbol,Android Emoji,EmojiSymbols" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Jake Shulman-Ment </b></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(violin) is at the helm of a new generation of Klezmer and Yiddish music performers. He tours and records internationally in addition to being a widely sought-out teacher of the klezmer fiddle tradition at festivals around the globe. He collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar, and has lived and traveled in Hungary and Greece, learning traditional violin styles. In 2018 he received the prestigious NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts. He was a featured subject of Csaba Bereczki’s full-length documentary film </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Soul Exodus</i></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, and appears on HBO’s </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>Succession</i></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, Martin Scorcese’s </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>The Irishman</i></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, and a host of other film and theater productions. Jake’s debut solo album, A Redele (A Wheel) (Oriente Musik, 2012) was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award. His new group, Midwood, released its first album, Out of the Narrows, (Chant Records) in May 2018.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Color UI NotoColorEmoji", "UI EmojiSymbols"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #111111; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Raffi Boden </b></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #111111; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(cello) is an innovative cellist and educator and a current graduate student at The Juilliard School. A member of the award-winning contemporary klezmer ensemble Mamaliga, </span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #111111; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Raffi was the winner of the 2018 Oberlin Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with both the Orchestra and the Contemporary Music Ensemble. In 2016, he spent a month teaching and studying the El Sistema method in Venezuela, and he has performed internationally in France, Venezuela, and around the U.S. Raffi holds a B.M. in Cello Performance and a B.A. in French Language from the Oberlin College & Conservatory.</span></span></div></div><div class="yj6qo" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"></div><div class="adL" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div class="adL" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400;"></div></div><div class="adL" style="font-size: small; font-weight: 400;"></div></div></div></div><div class="hq gt" id=":21b" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: "Google Sans", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: 400; margin: 15px 0px; text-align: start;"></div></div></h2></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com015 Old Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA40.8153241 -73.957150324.998555349226464 -91.5352753 56.632092850773532 -56.379025299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-39369512146890650742023-01-14T21:32:00.000-08:002023-01-14T21:32:13.358-08:00Jewish Music New and Old with the Trio Fadolin<p><span face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: color: #050505;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5e2Pcp2wlQgc-q86mulIz5BygYhWC3LlycrWQsPwSYxYJZiAsMK0FTzRU63Iclz-8ntwgZRD3LHvuQiPMtcgGCuGrDMFtpGshMHBvAFadqN_fOR2OCbbMYtLJfBaG2pMELFQ2A5t82J0iuixGW2m0CJ5URwIjoJIuolKPAWIo0ruqFWEpN0No9sz/s1664/trio_fadolin-orthodox_cropping%20-pr%20edits.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="1098" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5e2Pcp2wlQgc-q86mulIz5BygYhWC3LlycrWQsPwSYxYJZiAsMK0FTzRU63Iclz-8ntwgZRD3LHvuQiPMtcgGCuGrDMFtpGshMHBvAFadqN_fOR2OCbbMYtLJfBaG2pMELFQ2A5t82J0iuixGW2m0CJ5URwIjoJIuolKPAWIo0ruqFWEpN0No9sz/w422-h640/trio_fadolin-orthodox_cropping%20-pr%20edits.jpg" width="422" /></a></b></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Please join us for a special Melave Malka concert of Jewish music, new and old with the Trio Fadolin. The concert will take place at 8:00pm on Saturday, January 28, 2023 at the Old Broadway Synagogue. $10 contribution requested.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Segoe UI Historic, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #050505; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is more about this unique musical group from their website:</span></span></div><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Trio Fadolín is a new ensemble with a unique sonority — featuring Sabina Torosjan on violin, Valeriya Sholokhova on cello, and Ljova, performing on the fadolín – a new instrument that encompasses the range of the violin, viola, and most of the cello, finding its footing in an acoustic chamber music setting for the first time. We formed during the COVID-19 pandemic — our first performances were in the summer of 2021, on a makeshift stage at the Javits Convention Center mass vaccination site, operated by the US Army and sponsored by Sing for Hope. Since that time, we have made appearances at Bargemusic, Barbès, Symphony Space, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We continue to perform outreach events for Sing For Hope’s stage at the new Moynihan Train Terminal at Penn Station, where we frequently perform with special guests. As our opportunities to play together grew, our repertoire evolved steadily — it now includes works by Ukrainian composers Vasily Barvinsky, Mykola Kolessa, and Miroslav Skoryk, Spanish-American composer Andrea Casarrubios, folk music from Denmark, Sweden and Romania, in addition to original works by our fadolínist, Ljova. All three of us are graduates of The Juilliard School.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our focus is multifaceted — on the one hand, we are exploring the unique sonority of the acoustic fadolín (six-string violin, with low C and F strings) within a trio context, using it — for the first time in history — as an integral instrument in an acoustic chamber music setting.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">On the other hand, we also share a deep personal connection — all three of us grew up in the former Soviet Union and arrived in New York as teens. Sabina was born in Estonia of Armenian-Jewish heritage; Valeriya was born in Ukraine of Ukrainian, Jewish, and Russian heritage; Ljova was born in Moscow, Russia, of Ukrainian-Jewish, German-Jewish, Polish and Romanian heritage. We share a common bond of immigration, Eastern European literature, humor, animation and music.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We are here to tell the complicated story, to tell the stories of immigrant composers, to collaborate with immigrant artists, to showcase places where cultures intersect.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">MUSICIAN BIOS:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">SABINA TOROSJAN, originally from Tartu, Estonia has been an active freelance performer since graduating from The Juilliard School having studied with Sally Thomas and Lewis Kaplan. She plays regularly with Ensemble Mise-En and RAM whose focus is in contemporary music from around the world. She has recorded with iconic folk singer Pete Seeger, Jennifer Hudson, composer and guitarist Terry Champlin, as well as appearing on SNL.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sabina enjoyed being the violinist for the Off Broadway production of “Fiddler On The Roof in Yiddish” for its entire run ending in 2020. She also loves spending time with her two kids.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) was born in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance & film, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, performing with and composing for TRIO FADOLÍN, as well as a busy career as a violist, fadolínist & musical arranger. Among recent projects are commissions from the City of London Sinfonia, The Louisville Orchestra, a new work for Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, a string quartet for Brooklyn Rider, a clarinet quintet for Art of Élan, and works for The Knights, Sybarite5 and A Far Cry, as well arrangements for the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, tenor Javier Camarena, conductors Gustavo Dudamel and Alondra de la Parra, songwriters Ricky Martin, Natalia Lafourcade and Carlos Vives, composer/guitarist Gustavo Santaolalla and Osvaldo Golijov. Ljova frequently collaborates with choreographers Aszure Barton, Damian Woetzel, Christopher Wheeldon, Katarzyna Skarpetowska (with Parsons Dance)</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, cellist VALERIYA SHOLOKHOVA is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, where she was a full scholarship student of Bonnie Hampton and David Geber. Valeriya is a laureate of several international competitions and has participated in a number of summer music festivals, such as The Perlman Music Program, Kronberg Academy, Spoleto Festival USA, Orchestra of the Americas, and Thy Music Festival, where she served as principal cellist. An in-demand freelancer, Valeriya is currently the principal cellist with Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, Mimesis Ensemble, and New York Metamorphoses. In her free time, she enjoys travel, languages, and photography.</span></span></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com015 Old Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA40.8153241 -73.957150312.505090263821153 -109.1134003 69.125557936178836 -38.800900299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-16965929948437487492022-11-26T20:38:00.001-08:002022-11-26T20:38:44.331-08:00 KLEZMER NIGHT ON OL' BROADWAY, DECEMBER 10, 2022<div style="background-color: #ffc133; padding: 10px;">
<p><i style="background-color: #ffc133; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14pt;"></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1al4yGcudPnSldK6m7ATIqBqU7fP3_YGEJnRRulPLW9-9QUcjGToEaK5Hoj6BqkEd_eX1ZebfveJXfihf95ve_Knw8ApgO5jP7LIM1zPirn6QRTH9tlmJBxli4mdiCVAkWotRHM3qL-aqGxaYomA4eOYseB7LKuLVp6ufHL0UYUt85MOS6mHYUc0R/s940/Bob%20Jake%20Pete%20Old%20Broadway%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1al4yGcudPnSldK6m7ATIqBqU7fP3_YGEJnRRulPLW9-9QUcjGToEaK5Hoj6BqkEd_eX1ZebfveJXfihf95ve_Knw8ApgO5jP7LIM1zPirn6QRTH9tlmJBxli4mdiCVAkWotRHM3qL-aqGxaYomA4eOYseB7LKuLVp6ufHL0UYUt85MOS6mHYUc0R/w387-h324/Bob%20Jake%20Pete%20Old%20Broadway%20(2).jpg" width="387" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>KLEZMER NIGHT ON OL' BROADWAY</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>with Bob Cohen, Jake Shulman-Ment & Pete Rushefsky </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Saturday, December 10, 8pm</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>at the Old Broadway Synagogue</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Suggested donation: $10</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Join us for the new klezmer music series at the Old Broadway Synagogue (15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan) at 8pm on Saturday night, December 10, 2022. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We'll be featuring three of the contemporary klezmer scene's leading performers - Bob Cohen (violin) Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) and Jake Shulman-Ment (violin). For decades, an important milestone for aspiring young klezmorim has been to make a pilgrimage to see Bob Cohen of the ensemble Di Naye Kapelye in Budapest. Or even better, to accompany Cohen on a tour of Transylvanian villages in search of the last Roma musicians who played with Jewish bands before WWII. Two such pilgrim over the years have been violin virtuoso Jake Shulman-Ment, now recognized as one of the contemporary klezmer scene’s finest fiddlers, and tsimbl (cimbalom/hammered dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky. Join the trio for a night of rediscovered melodies, Hasidic spirtuals and rollicking dance tunes. This program is presented by the Old Broadway Synagogue in partnership with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Yiddish New York.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Biograpies of performers:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Bob Cohen </b>(violin) was born in New York in 1956 to a Hungarian mother and Moldavian father. In the late 1980s, he commenced his research on Hungary’s Jewish musical heritage, including songs, dances, and musical instruments. In 1993, he founded the influential Budapest-based ensemble Di Naye Kapelye (The New Band) with accordionist Christina Crowder and bassist Géza Pénzes. The musicians present klezmer music in the style in which it was originally performed in Eastern Europe in the early twentieth century. Their 2008 release Traktorist ranked high on Songline World Music Magazine’s “Top of the World” list of best new albums. Cohen served as a consultant, speaker and featured artist at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. He is currently touring as part of the Brothers Nazroff ensemble, which recently released their first album on Smithsonian Folkways; the band is featured in the 2016 documentary by Hungarian filmmaker Csaba Bereczki entitled “Soul Exodus.”</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Pete Rushefsky</b> (tsimbl) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Jake Shulman-Ment</b> (violin) is at the helm of a new generation of Klezmer and Yiddish music performers. He tours and records internationally in addition to being a widely sought-out teacher of the klezmer fiddle tradition at festivals around the globe. He collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar, and has lived and traveled in Hungary and Greece, learning traditional violin styles. In 2018 he received the prestigious NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts. He was a featured subject of Csaba Bereczki’s full-length documentary film Soul Exodus, and appears on HBO’s Succession, Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman, and a host of other film and theater productions. Jake’s debut solo album, A Redele (A Wheel) (Oriente Musik, 2012) was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award. His new group, Midwood, released its first album, Out of the Narrows, (Chant Records) in May 2018.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>
</div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com015 Old Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA40.8153241 -73.957150312.505090263821153 -109.1134003 69.125557936178836 -38.800900299999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-30183083386373164402022-11-03T18:33:00.000-07:002022-11-03T18:33:04.071-07:00The Klezmographers: Klezmer Music from Around the World, 8:00pm November 19, 2022<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZLk_DIaDklMX3GijjbiX9PcuXQCZQbqwxVKOvRSYPNVi4yyut9oLPHdyrDJVNRgiuHrufXoMQULrfF3fRgqbWgMupBUO0KCx4U8RbYt6niymncX-gwZd1Phpyv2IjCXM2ePXCeNqgMkNsg3bh55CWgEEUChXhK3aL64Br2AL0NjRlfsV0cJmob3pE/s940/Old%20Broadway%20social%20media%20Eleonore%20Pete%2020221029.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZLk_DIaDklMX3GijjbiX9PcuXQCZQbqwxVKOvRSYPNVi4yyut9oLPHdyrDJVNRgiuHrufXoMQULrfF3fRgqbWgMupBUO0KCx4U8RbYt6niymncX-gwZd1Phpyv2IjCXM2ePXCeNqgMkNsg3bh55CWgEEUChXhK3aL64Br2AL0NjRlfsV0cJmob3pE/w448-h374/Old%20Broadway%20social%20media%20Eleonore%20Pete%2020221029.png" width="448" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">THE KLEZMOGRAPHERS: Klezmer Music from Around the World</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) & Eleonore Biezunski (violin)</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Please join us for our second klezmer melaveh malkah concert!</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Saturday, November 19, 8pm at the Old Broadway Synagogue</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Suggested donation: $10</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl, banjo) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Eléonore Biezunski is an award-winning Parisian singer/violinist now living in NYC. An avid collector of Yiddish music, she co-founded and is a member of Ephemeral Birds, Yerushe, Lyubtshe, Shpilkes, Shtetl Stompers and Klezmographers and has collaborated with a large number of well-known Jewish performers here and abroad. Her recordings include Yerushe (IEMJ, 2016) and Zol zayn (2014). She won a Bubbe Awards in 2021 for her song "Tshemodan" in the category Best New Yiddish Song. As YIVO’s Associate Sound Archivist, Eléonore is the Project Coordinator for the Ruth Rubin Legacy online exhibition (ruthrubin.yivo.org). She is also a member of the Klezmer Institute's KMDMP and Klezmer Archive Project. She has a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and has published several academic articles about Yiddish music and Yiddish theater. She is a recipient of a NYSCA Folk Arts Apprenticeship. She appears in several documentary films about Yiddish culture and music.</span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-3750043273657395302022-10-23T15:37:00.000-07:002022-10-23T15:37:40.057-07:00KLEZMER MUSIC - Oldish n' Newish, 8:00pm on October 29, 2022 <p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8DTCyAzupFkeGwZbznJE3x85AVrQUOj1ge1DL8iz12IN1Cd0qHvLEofS-eSFWLlQjtvFv9UdqtU3Ok0SfEod5aXeXwQJdJv9ZjRXKc3xrtl-Kwx04vOcOK0hXYNCmqc6AfepVMTYh7ooW7Vwbfsfumkoeg4W9p6-Loi9T1UJYkrQpxiOBfLkw_r9/s940/Old%20Broadway%20social%20media%20Jake%20Pete%2020221029.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="940" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8DTCyAzupFkeGwZbznJE3x85AVrQUOj1ge1DL8iz12IN1Cd0qHvLEofS-eSFWLlQjtvFv9UdqtU3Ok0SfEod5aXeXwQJdJv9ZjRXKc3xrtl-Kwx04vOcOK0hXYNCmqc6AfepVMTYh7ooW7Vwbfsfumkoeg4W9p6-Loi9T1UJYkrQpxiOBfLkw_r9/w423-h353/Old%20Broadway%20social%20media%20Jake%20Pete%2020221029.jpg" width="423" /></a></p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">CONCERT OF KLEZMER MUSIC: Oldish n' Newish<br /><br />Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) & Jake Shulman-Ment (violin)<br /><br />Saturday, October 29, 8pm at the Old Broadway Synagogue<br /><br />(15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan)<br /><br />Suggested donation: $10</span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Join us for a swinging melave malkah and the kickoff of a new klezmer music series at the Old Broadway Synagogue (15 Old Broadway between 125th & 126th Streets in Manhattan) at 8pm on Saturday night, October 29, 2022. We'll be featuring two of the contemporary klezmer scene's leading performers - Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered dulcimer) and Jake Shulman-Ment (violin). From Hasidic spirituals to rollicking dance tunes, Rushefsky and Shulman-Ment breathe life into musical treasures from the past and present new melodies from klezmer's cutting edge. This program is presented by the Old Broadway Synagogue in partnership with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance.<br /><br />Pete Rushefsky*** (tsimbl, banjo) A leading performer, composer and researcher of the Jewish tsimbl (cimbalom or hammered dulcimer), Rushefsky tours and records internationally with violinist Itzhak Perlman as part of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, and collaborates with a number of leading figures in the contemporary klezmer scene including Andy Statman, Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Joel Rubin, Eleonore Biezunski, Michael Alpert, Madeline Solomon, Zhenya Lopatnik, Zoe Aqua, Jake Shulman-Ment, Keryn Kleiman, Eleonore Weill, Alex Parke, and Michael Winograd. Since 2006 he has served as Executive Director of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the nation’s leading organization dedicated to the preservation and presentation of diverse immigrant music traditions from around the world. He is a founder of the annual Yiddish New York festival, curated the Yiddish program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival and has authored a number of articles on traditional music and culture.<br /><br />Jake Shulman-Ment (violin) is at the helm of a new generation of Klezmer and Yiddish music performers. He tours and records internationally in addition to being a widely sought-out teacher of the klezmer fiddle tradition at festivals around the globe. He collected, studied, performed, and documented traditional music in Romania as a Fulbright scholar, and has lived and traveled in Hungary and Greece, learning traditional violin styles. In 2018 he received the prestigious NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Folk/Traditional Arts. He was a featured subject of Csaba Bereczki’s full-length documentary film Soul Exodus, and appears on HBO’s Succession, Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman, and a host of other film and theater productions. Jake’s debut solo album, A Redele (A Wheel) (Oriente Musik, 2012) was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award. His new group, Midwood, released its first album, Out of the Narrows, (Chant Records) in May 2018.<br /></span><br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-41331127417644702942022-08-23T20:44:00.002-07:002022-08-23T20:45:29.745-07:00Old Broadway Synagogue Honor Roll from 1943<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoET1msMm8s1sPr_TiIk6lKGWYPQ_Pn-sdUXiULUSfnBj3hsmi3Y2J9V59MVoOItyWqwD5GKggczQgFdfscoZjSlP_utwlOu9VIYJb9D1BNzhCFsobDEQFqR05E5z6nJO_DjmjFjzS-U5Np4ZGsGTrChRyajX7e29Bm8MrErBPhMoHTvnhB7jtOZBT/s4080/PXL_20220731_120342237.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoET1msMm8s1sPr_TiIk6lKGWYPQ_Pn-sdUXiULUSfnBj3hsmi3Y2J9V59MVoOItyWqwD5GKggczQgFdfscoZjSlP_utwlOu9VIYJb9D1BNzhCFsobDEQFqR05E5z6nJO_DjmjFjzS-U5Np4ZGsGTrChRyajX7e29Bm8MrErBPhMoHTvnhB7jtOZBT/w301-h400/PXL_20220731_120342237.jpg" width="301" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This plaque had been in our basement for at least long as I have been attending the Old Broadway Synagogue. Our contractor, Chris Mickalski, recently installed it for us. I had heard that it had been under the fluorescent light fixture on the south wall of the synagogue opposite the bimah, which is where the plaque is now. I believe that the men who are listed on this plaque were associated with Old Broadway (or they had relatives associated with Old Broadway) and who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. It is hard to believe that Old Broadway had that many young men who attended the synagogue in the 1940s, but I suppose that truth can be stranger than fiction. I hope to transcribe the names and include them in a blog post so that they will be search. If anyone can add information about any of these individuals, please do so in the comments below. </span></p><p></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com015 Old Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA40.8153241 -73.957150340.815222602429806 -73.95728441045074 40.81542559757019 -73.95701618954925tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-66836964978368915452022-06-21T19:23:00.001-07:002022-06-21T19:23:46.616-07:00Shul Construction Update<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7GKViaq06WOISDi0m9oPI4Sffb0_KRXrT6_KeRwGZYFvQEECe7jvfEYCcJraWLvY9Rsd-hrRn9EKIV8ePiIkYymb876mNaLVWOlLUUOgxptZwIYDChcOssHZ0Hq4v8QtX7C1ntDmTJCXoIMFIvTs_8dsVI2M0F0Nwv0O91N5b08I5eDmW5DGWYasq/s4080/PXL_20220501_021350703.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7GKViaq06WOISDi0m9oPI4Sffb0_KRXrT6_KeRwGZYFvQEECe7jvfEYCcJraWLvY9Rsd-hrRn9EKIV8ePiIkYymb876mNaLVWOlLUUOgxptZwIYDChcOssHZ0Hq4v8QtX7C1ntDmTJCXoIMFIvTs_8dsVI2M0F0Nwv0O91N5b08I5eDmW5DGWYasq/w301-h400/PXL_20220501_021350703.jpg" title="Jacking up the lobby floor in the basement" width="301" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jacking up the lobby floor to install a steel support beam and steel columns</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As spring gives way to summer, I am grateful to Hashem that after nearly two and a half years of pandemic, things are returning to normal. Just before the pandemic began, we realized that the floor supporting the staircase to the second floor was gradually sinking. Probes by our conservator and an engineer revealed that at one point during construction, the original contractor planned to build a staircase on the southern wall to the basement, parallel to the staircase on the northern wall. As construction proceeded, the contractor changed his mind and decided that one staircase was enough. As was common from buildings of that era, the hole where the southern staircase was to go was covered but not adequately reinforced. When this was brought to our attention, we resolved to have this deficiency repaired. The pandemic and the the fact that the engineer was sick delayed progress on this project. The condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, reminded us of the importance of our project and enabled us to get things moving.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Under the guidance of our project manager, Ed Kamper, and a new engineer (hired after our first engineer passed away), we hired a contracted and began to make progress. First, the floor was lifted several inches. Then, a diagonal steel beam, pocketed in the masonry at the ends and supposed by steel posts, was installed. Finally the beam, and the exposed area of the basement and the electrical room was covered in sheetrock. There are still a few things to do (fixing up the ladies room and installing missing light fixtures, addressing a leaky skylight and leaky windows, and other small issues), but the project is almost done. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">What will we do next? Good question! Next year will be hundredth anniversary of the construction of our building, and truth be told, there is still lots of work to be done. Down the road, we hope to restore the walls along with all the decorative painting, upgrade the electrical system and replace (with new tin) our tin ceiling. Fortunately, the pattern of the original tin is still available. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We have come as far as we have thanks to the help of the many people who have contributed to the shul. May God bless all of our donors and may they continue to support this holy house of God.</span></p><p><br /></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-25464583823504706722021-12-31T08:21:00.003-08:002021-12-31T08:25:13.246-08:00Please Support the Old Broadway Synagogue!<p><br /></p><p></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Teves
5782</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">December
2021</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dear
Friends,</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
hope this note finds you and your families well.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <i>Gemora</i>,
Taanis, page 23a, relates an enigmatic story about Choni Ha-Maagel
(Choni the circle-maker), which I would like to share. I am
paraphrasing Sefaria’s translation:</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One
day, Choni was walking along the road when he saw a man planting a
carob tree. Choni said to him: “After how many years will this tree
bear fruit?” The man replied: “Seventy years.” Choni said to
him: “Is it obvious that you will live seventy years, so that you
can expect to benefit from this tree?” The man replied that he had
found a world full of carob trees. “Just as my ancestors planted
for me, I too am planting for my descendants.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sleep
overcame Choni and …he slept for seventy years. When he awoke, he
saw a certain man gathering carob pods from that tree. Ḥoni said to
him: “Are you the one who planted this tree?” The man said to
him: “I am his grandson.”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The <i>Gemora</i> continues
that Choni went home and then to the <i>beis midrash</i> and
announced that he was Choni Ha-Maagel, but he was not believed in
either place.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There
are at least two important lessons in this passage.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
first is that, just as we have received many things from the past,
even from many people we have not known personally, we are obligated
to prepare the world for the coming generations, even if we will
never meet them.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
second is that we need to take advantage of the time that we have now
to accomplish as much as we can, whether it is in learning, or
building a family, or a community, or helping to develop and support
Israel. Just as Choni’s return from the past was not successful, we
cannot expect that there will be a better time than right now to make
things happen.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These
insights from the <i>Gemora</i> help inform what we do at
the Old Broadway Synagogue. We are very active for a small community!
In addition to the excellent <i>derashos</i> that Rafi
gives every Shabbos, our Women’s Rosh Chodesh group, under the
leadership of Rhonda Taylor and Laura Radensky, is going strong. We
are fortunate to have a wonderful children's group under the
leadership of the teen members of the group, who have been davening
and learning, and putting on plays based on the weekly Torah reading.
Rabbi Heller continues to give wonderful <i>shiurim </i>every
other week. Lastly, we had a lovely Chanukah party with arts and
crafts live music provided by Lawrence Goldman, Natanel Laevsky, and
Eliano Braz.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I
am also pleased to say that we have been building up our library
of <i>sifrei kodesh</i> at the shul. Thanks to a number of
contributions, both monetary and in-kind, we now have a beautiful new
set of the Artscroll <i>Mikra’os Gedolos</i>, individual
volumes and sets of the <i>Gemora</i>, sets of <i>Mishnayos</i>,
and sets of the major <i>meforshim</i>. I would like to add that
these books are heavily used and we anticipate the library growing
even further.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Continuing
our efforts to preserve our historic 98 year-old building for future
generations, we have been moving forward on our floor reinforcement
project. As noted previously, the first floor in the lobby has been
sinking, and the construction that we are about to begin will
stabilize and level the floor and keep it sound for the foreseeable
future. We have hired a contractor, and have begun to clear out the
space in the basement in preparation for the work. We are still
raising money and we hope to raise another $40,000 to help cover the
cost. With your help, we know that we can reach this goal and
complete the work. Please keep us in mind as you make your year-end
contributions.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
all, we are doing what we can to preserve <i>Yiddishkeit </i>for
future generations, with urgency because as it is written in Psalm
119, “<i>Es la’asos le-Hashem</i>,” “Now is the time to act
for Hashem!”</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Speaking
personally, it is a tremendous <i>zechus </i>for me to be
part of the holy community that makes up the Old Broadway Synagogue.
Thanks to your support, it has continued to be a place of learning,
of Torah, of <i>chesed</i>, as inspired by Rabbi Kret and Mrs.
Kret, may their memories be for a blessing. With Hashem’s help, and
with your help, may we continue to be a beacon of <i>Yiddishkeit </i>and
Torah.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paul
Radensky</span></span></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">President</span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2;"><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Please
click <a href="https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/1383810" target="_blank">here</a> to
make an online contribution to the Old Broadway Synagogue.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-25308544499935240292021-08-30T18:30:00.000-07:002021-08-31T14:25:24.324-07:00High Holiday Message for 5782 - 2021<div style="background-color: #ffcc00; color: black; padding: 10px;">
<p style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Elul
5781</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">September
2021</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Dear
Friends,</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">I
hope this letter finds you and your family well.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">As
we approach the end of the year, we should be aware that the new year
is a <i>shemittah</i>, or Sabbatical, year. Just as we are to
rest on the seventh day of each week, the Torah commands us to allow
the agricultural land in Israel to rest on the seventh year of each
seven-year cycle. God promises that the produce of the sixth year
will be plentiful enough to last for three years- for the sixth year
itself, for the seventh year when we are not allowed to plant, and
for the eighth year in which we do plant, but when we still have to
wait for the crops to mature in order to bring in the harvest. Just
as the laws of Shabbos are restrictive but result in rest and in
spiritual and physical rejuvenation, so too <i>shemittah </i>results
in both spiritual and physical renewal. The first is because
during <i>shemitta</i>h, we rely on God, deepening our faith.
The second is because by letting the land lie fallow, it will recover
its nutrients and become fertile again.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">During
the past year and a half, many of us were forced to rest. For all of
us, many things have changed. As we approach the new year, let us do
a <i>cheshbon ha-nefesh</i> - an accounting of the soul.
Let us recognize that we are all in God’s hands, and let us cherish
with greater appreciation our families, our communities and
everything we have. In this way, may we proceed <i>me-afelah
le-orah</i>, from darkness to light. May God bless us with success,
happiness and above all, good health in the new year and
the years to come.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">We
are looking forward to the High Holidays. <i>B’ezras Hashem</i>,
Orrin Tilevitz will lead Selichos as he has done for
over 30 years, on Saturday night, August 28th at 12:30am. Rabbi
Reuven Hoff and Yosef Tannenbaum, will again lead services on Rosh
Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For everyone’s safety, we will keep
the building well-ventilated and will ask people to wear masks
and observe social distancing.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The
past year and a half have been challenging for all synagogues, but I
am pleased to say that Old Broadway has been doing well under the
circumstances. We lost some congregants but we gained new ones. We
have had regular services every week with a thoughtful divrei
Torah and a delicious kiddush. We have had a number of simchas
including two bat mitzvah celebrations and two marriages. Under the
leadership of Rhonda Taylor and Laura Radensky, the Women’s Rosh
Chodesh Group has met regularly on Zoom. Rabbi Heller has been giving
excellent <i>shiurim</i> in the shul twice a month. Among
the topics were: “The Secret History of Lag Ba-Omer,” “How
Much Risk Can You Take on Yourself to Help Someone Else?” “When
Does a Child Become and Adult,” and “Celebrating and Mourning at
the Same Time.” The shul also organized a first aid, CPR, and AED
(automated external defibrillator) course and we also purchased a
defibrillator. Under Dale Brown’s stewardship, the garden in the
back courtyard is in full bloom.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">After
a pandemic-caused delay, the project to reinforce the first floor
lobby and staircase is on track again. When the shul was built in
1923, a staircase was planned to the basement on the south side of
the lobby. The staircase ultimately was installed on the north side
of the lobby. Unfortunately, the floor on the south side was not
properly framed out and has been sinking ever since. We plan to jack
up the ceiling and floor to level it, and then, in order to stabilize
the floor, we plan to install a steel beam that will cut across the
ceiling in the northeast corner of the basement. This work will
require moving gas, electric and water lines. Drawings have been
prepared, submitted to the Department of Buildings, and approved. We
have invited three contractors to submit proposals. Our project
manager estimates that the job will cost $84,000, although does not
include unforeseen contingencies that may arise while doing the work.
So far, we have raised about $32,000. Accordingly, we are still
raising funds and will be grateful for your support.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Your
generous help has enabled us to welcome people and provide them with
beautiful davening and a warm community. You have also enabled us to
maintain and restore our historic building. As the New Year
approaches, we turn to you again. We hope that we continue to be
worthy of your support so that we may continue to be a beacon of
Yiddishkeit and Torah to many Jews in Harlem, Morningside Heights and
the Upper West Side. May Hashem inscribe and seal you and your
families for good health, happiness and success for the New Year.</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><i>Le-shanah
tovah tikatevu ve-techatemu,</i></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><i>A
gut gebentsht yor,</i></span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Dr.
Paul Radensky</span></span></span></p><p align="left" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 150%;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">President</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><p></p>
</div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-46541279703381866402020-10-18T08:55:00.001-07:002020-10-18T19:07:52.449-07:00THE OLD BROADWAY SYNAGOGUE IS OPEN - COVID INSTRUCTIONS<br />
Dear Friends,<br />
<br />
I am pleased to inform your that the Old Broadway Synagogue is open for services. According to New York State regulations, we are allow to admit 25% of our capacity. We still have space for a few additional <i>mispallelim</i>. If you would like to join us, please email us at <a href="mailto:paulradensky@gmail.com">paulradensky@gmail.com</a> or at <a href="mailto:obs15old@gmail.com">obs15old@gmail.com. </a><br />
<br />
In order to make sure that everyone is safe in the synagogue, we require everyone who attends the shul to observe the guidelines below.<br />
<br />
Warm wishes for a good week.<br />
<br />
Paul Radensky<br />
President<br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Safety Protocols<br />
<br />In accordance with New York State regulations we have opened the shul but at reduced capacity. In order to keep everyone safe, everyone who attends must abide by the following instructions:</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>1. We require that people who are new to the synagogue and wish to
attend services email us in advance of </span><span>their</span><span>
arrival. We can reached at </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="mailto:paulradensky@gmail.com">paulradensky@gmail.com</a> or <a href="mailto:obs15old@gmail.com">obs15old@gmail.com</a>.</span></div><div>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />2. While in shul everyone should wear masks, with exception made for the light kiddush. Please note the mask rule will be enforced. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />3. Within the synagogue, you must sit at least six feet apart from other people (except from those who live in the same household as you do).<br />
<br />4. Please refrain from shaking hands, hugs or other personal contact. Please bring your own siddur oir take a siddur and keep it at your seat.<br />
<br />5. Members and guests over 65 years of age and/or those members with immunocompromise issues and underlying health conditions should not attend shul.<br />
<br />6. If you feel even mildly ill, you should not attend shul.<br />
<br />
Soap is available at the sinks and hand sanitizer has been placed throughout the building.<br />
<br /></span>
<br /></div></div>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-42756407148714013702019-12-23T20:19:00.000-08:002019-12-23T20:21:13.064-08:00Please Join Us for Our Chanukah Simchah!<div style="background-color: yellow; color: #151b54; padding: 10px;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Please Join Us for Our Annual</span></div>
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</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Chanukah Simchah</i></span></b></div>
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</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Motzoei Shabbos</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>December 28, 2019, at 6:30pm</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We will have music, latkes, sufganiyot,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">arts and crafts, a candle-lighting and a lot of fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A $10 donation would be appreciated!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>!חג אורים שמח</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>!אַ פֿרײליכן, ליכטיקן חנוכּה</b></span></div>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-21332526122861484452019-04-14T20:23:00.002-07:002019-04-14T20:23:39.503-07:00Warm wishes for a Zisn, Kushern Pesach!<br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nissan
5779</span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">April
2019</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<span style="text-decoration: none;">Dear
Friend,</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br />
I
hope this note finds you and your family well.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<span style="text-decoration: none;">The
recounting of the Ten Plagues is one of the most dramatic and
theologically challenging sections of the Torah. In their way the
plagues represent a kind of nightmarish undoing of creation. Water,
which represents life, becomes blood, the weather and the animals go
beserk and the crowning blow is not the emergence of man, but his
death. All the Egyptians suffer because Pharaoh refuses to change his
mind – God will not let him. Why? “So that the Egyptians shall
know that I am the Lord when I stretch my hand over Egypt and take
the children of Israel from their midst.” </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br />
Perhaps
the Egyptians are the primary audience for the plagues as they are
related in the Book of Exodus but subsequently, for the generations,
they are to remind Israel of God’s might. For this reason, the
recitation of the plagues plays a prominent role in the seder. As
horrific as they were, for the rabbis, ten plagues were not enough.
Rabbi Yose the Galilean, Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Akiva seem to
compete with each other to say that at the Red Sea there 50, then
200, then 250 additional plagues.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<span style="text-decoration: none;">The
rabbis are doing more than playing math games. They are illustrating
God’s awesome power, one that is sometimes is not fully recognized.
As we think about the many miracles that God performed for our
ancestors, we should also think of those He has done for us as
individuals, as families, and as the Jewish people. I daresay that we
will be able to count to a high number as well.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Sometimes
it seems that what we have accomplished at the Old Broadway
Synagogue, thanks to your support, is, </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i>lehavdil</i></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
miraculous as well. We have had wonderful Shabbosim with Rabbi Avi
Heller of the Orthodox Union, and Cantor Eric Freeman of the Belz
School of Jewish Museum at Yeshiva University. Rabbi Heller and Rabbi
Elie Pollack continue to give fascinating </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i>shiurim</i></span><span style="text-decoration: none;"> after
davening on Sunday mornings. Under the leadership of Rhonda
Taylor-Ramsuer and Laura Radensky, our Women’s Rosh Chodesh group
meets every month for learning and fellowship.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Songwriter,
guitarist and singer Lazer Lloyd gave an inspiring Chanukah concert,
and we also had a lively Chanukah party that featured arts and crafts
for the children and a visit from New York City Council Member Mark
Levine. Greek-Israeli musician and singer, Avram Pengas, performed at
our Purim party.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br />
We
celebrated with Josie Steinhauer and Spencer Katzman the naming of
their daughter, Hattie. We also celebrated the bris of Mathias and
Sara David’s son, Josh, welcomed the arrival of my grand-daughter,
Bayla Yosefa, and celebrated the wedding of my son, Asher, to Georgia
Trester. We are looking forward to more simchas in the future.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">As
I wrote in a previous letter, the beams in the ceiling above the
electrical room have slipped significantly. This problem is made more
urgent by the fact that the stairs to the second floor begin on this
part of the first floor and are being compromised by the damage. We
hope to jack up the floor and install a steel beam on posts across
the basement and the Ladies Room to shore up and stabilize the first
floor and staircase. We will have to move the electrical, gas and
water service, and accordingly, the cost for the entire project will
be about $75,000. We have applied for a $25,000 matching grant from
the New York Landmarks Conservancy and hope to hear soon whether if
we will be awarded the funds. We have also raised $30,000 towards
this project. Although we have come a long way, even if we receive
the grant, we will still be $20,000 short. We hope that you will help
us with this project, as you have helped us in the past.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Thank
you for your generous support of our programming and for the
restoration of our historic building. You have enabled us to welcome
people in the tradition of Rabbi and Mrs. Kret, </span><span style="text-decoration: none;"><i>zikhronam
le-vrakhah</i></span><span style="text-decoration: none;">, with
meaningful davening, a beautiful shul and a warm community. As
Passover approaches, we hope that we continue to be worthy of your
assistance so that we may continue to be a beacon of Yiddishkeit and
Torah to many Jews in Harlem, Morningside Heights and the Upper West
Side.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank
you in advance for your help. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br />
Warm
wishes for a sweet and kosher Pesach.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Paul
Radensky</span></span></span></div>
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<br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-68027954354716326472019-04-09T19:00:00.000-07:002019-04-14T20:21:56.973-07:00Seats Available for Passover Seder, April 19, 2019<div style="background-color: #667c26; padding: 10px;">
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: 24pt;">Please Join Us for a Delicious </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: 24pt;">Traditional Passover Seder</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: 18pt;"> Friday, April 19, 2019</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"><i><b>Limited Spaces Available!</b></i></span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">$100 (recommended); Members $80;</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #ffd966;">Children under 13 years old $50; Children under 5 years old free</span><br />
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</span><i><b><span style="color: #ffd966;">Seder Plate, Four Questions and Afikomen </span><span style="color: #ffd966;">Sponsorships</span></b></i><br />
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</b></span></i> <i><span style="color: #ffd966;"><b> are still available ($500 each)</b></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">To reserve or for more information,</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">please email</span><span style="color: #ede275;"> </span><span style="color: #ede275;"><b><u><a href="mailto:paulradensky@gmail.com"><span style="color: #ffd966;">paulradensky@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #ffe599;"> </span></u></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">or leave a message at 212 662-9767</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">and pay the appropriate amount via<b> </b></span><a href="https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/1383810"><b><span style="color: #ffd966;">PayPal</span></b></a> </span><span style="color: #ffd966;">or</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">make a check out to Old Broadway Synagogue and send it to:</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #ffd966;">Old Broadway Synagogue</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;">15 Old Broadway, New York, NY 10027. </span><br />
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<b style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">!מיר וואונטשן אייך א זיסן כשרן פסח</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">!חג כשר ושמח</span></b></span><br />
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-29845617724860144352019-03-04T06:31:00.000-08:002019-03-18T20:46:42.658-07:00One Holiday We Take Very Serious: Purim at Old Broadway<div style="background-color: #ca226b; padding: 10px;">
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<span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">March 20, 2019<br />
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Minchah, 6:40pm<br />
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Maariv and Megilah: 7:30pm<br />
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and the music of the great Greek-Israeli virtuoso</span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>$15 suggested contribution<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>... and the fun continues on </b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thursday, March 21,
2018</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>at 7:00am with
Shacharis, Megilah Reading and Breakfast</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Rabbi Dr. Abe Ungar</b></span></div>
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<strong style="font-family: georgia, times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 34px;"><span style="color: yellow;">! אַ פֿרײליכן פּורים</span></strong></div>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-68467514852902609032018-12-17T19:28:00.000-08:002018-12-17T19:46:40.489-08:00Help Secure the Future! Capital Campaign 2018<div style="background-color: #151b8d; padding: 10px;">
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<b>Help Secure the Future!</b><b><br />
</b><b>Old Broadway Synagogue</b><b><br />
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Click </span><a href="https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/110230052184687338/charity/1383810"><span style="color: orange;">here</span></a><span style="color: yellow;"> to donate online via PayPal</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the fall, our conservator, Ed Kamper and structural engineer, Jay Butler, opened the wall under the stairs and the ceiling above the electrical room and discovered that the beams had slipped significantly. This problem is compounded by the fact that the stairs to the second floor begin on this part of the first floor and could be compromised by the damage. Mr. Kamper and Mr. Butler propose to jack up the floor and to fabricate and install a steel beam on posts across ceiling of the basement and the Ladies Room in order to shore up and stabilize the first floor and staircase. Unfortunately, this will necessitate moving the electrical, gas and water service, and accordingly, the cost for the entire project could be as much as $75,000.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">We have already begun our efforts to raise funds for this project. We will be applying for two grants from the New York Landmarks Conservancy. If we are fortunate and we are awarded the grants, they will cover about $25,000 of the expenses. In addition, a generous friend of the shul is offering us a challenge grant of $15,000. If we can raise the matching amount of money (or at least get pledges for that amount) by the end of the calendar year, we should have enough to start the project. I know that with your support we can achieve this goal. As such, we will keep the shul safe and functional for many years to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to the generosity of the new donor, you have the opportunity to double your donation with a 100% match (up to $15,000) on behalf of the Old Broadway Synagogue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">The PayPal Giving Fund will match 1% extra for all donations through this link and charge us no processing fees for credit card payments.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">We also welcome checks! Please make them out to Old Broadway Synagogue and send them to us at Old Broadway Synagogue, 15 Old Broadway, New York, NY 10027.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">We have sponsorship opportunities for this and other projects at the shul. </span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">Please inquire if interested at </span><a href="mailto:OBS15OLD@gmail.com" style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">OBS15OLD@gmail.com</span></a></div>
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Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11984004279776358926noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3116826553408003103.post-52244817051734948792018-11-14T19:00:00.000-08:002018-11-17T18:00:19.435-08:00Please join us to welcome Chanukah with music!<div style="background-color: #ede275; padding: 10px;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">December 2, 2018, 7:00pm</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Singer, songwriter and guitarist Lazer Lloyd will bring his unique blend of roots rock, Americana, folk, blues and country with a psychedelic twist to Harlem for a special Chanukah holiday concert open to the public at the historic Old Broadway Synagogue on Sunday, December 2nd at 7PM. </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This special show comes on the heels of his sold out NYC show in late October and will provide the Harlem audience an opportunity to hear this exciting artist live for the first time in a community that is a pillar in the foundation of the arts and music performance in the United States. Tickets available at <a href="http://lazerlloyd.live/">http://lazerlloyd.live</a> or at the Synagogue beginning at 6:00pm the night of the performance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #151b54; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Lazer's breakout hit "</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3PVjvCMFdM" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Backstreets</a><span style="color: #151b54; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">" is about to hit 1,000,000 streams. He is now preparing studio material with several important producers: Eric Paul (Townes van Zandt, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson) and Chris Bell (Don Henley, Eagles, Eric Johnson etc) both for release in 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #151b54; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lazer's global social media community enjoy sharing clips from his concerts, touring everywhere from New York and Toronto to Winston-Salem and Bulls Gap TN, from Mammoth Lakes CA to Lindale TX, from Nashville to Miami. A loyal audience tunes in to his weekly personalized live feeds from his back porch overlooking the Jerusalem mountains.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #151b54; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meet the man in person and you experience his kind aura through the eyes that crinkle with his frequent smiles, the humor in his stories, his concern for others and always in the personal attention he gives when listening to you. Meet him on Facebook or Instagram and even through the lens of social media his positive message shines through, from the lyrics in his music videos to the personal responses he gives to comments, and his hugely popular live Sunday morning Facebook segment, a mix of music, inspiration, and community. See him in concert and you're treated to all of it at once - the stories, the care and the love all delivered with his masterful musicianship and amazing guitar work. Not to mention that deep, warm voice!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #151b54; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born and raised in the U.S., as a young man Lloyd followed a musical path to Israel where he still makes his home with his wife and children. Lloyd tours the world much of the year, meeting people from all over the country and world, listening to their life stories, absorbing their struggles and victories. Look for the videos that will tell the whole story of the tour on his Facebook page. Better </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yet, come experience Lazer Lloyd in person on December 2nd in Harlem!</span></span></div>
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