Misplaced Pages

East Meadow Jewish Center: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 22:20, 29 July 2010 editEpeefleche (talk | contribs)Pending changes reviewers150,049 editsmNo edit summary← Previous edit Revision as of 22:27, 29 July 2010 edit undoEpeefleche (talk | contribs)Pending changes reviewers150,049 editsmNo edit summaryNext edit →
Line 65: Line 65:
Ground-breaking ceremonies for the synagogue took place on February 27, 1956.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E13FC3F5510728FDDAF0A94DA405B8689F1D3 |title=Jewish Unit to Break Ground |publisher=The New York Times |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> EMJC began with 115 founding members.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0711FD395D117B93CBA9178FD85F468685F9 |title= No Title|publisher=The New York Times |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/103407628.html?dids=103407628:103407628&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+02%2C+1989&author=&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Sylvia+Morrison%2C+69%2C+of+Freeport&pqatl=google |title=Sylvia Morrison, 69, of Freeport |publisher='']'' |date= July 2, 1989|accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> Harry W. Goldin was a co-founder, President, and Chairman of the synagogue's board of trustees, and Max Feld was a founder and President as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/103121555.html?dids=103121555:103121555&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+30%2C+1993&author=By+Eric+R.+QuinZones.+STAFF+WRITER&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Harry+W.+Goldin%2C+78%2C+Jewish+Leader&pqatl=google|author=Eric R. QuinZones |title=Harry W. Goldin, 78, Jewish Leader |publisher=''Newsday''|date=July 30, 1993 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/741667541.html?dids=741667541:741667541&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+23%2C+2004&author=&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=PAID+OBITUARIES&pqatl=google |title=.|publisher='']'' |date=November 23, 2004 |page=7B|accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>], November 23, 2004]</ref> Ground-breaking ceremonies for the synagogue took place on February 27, 1956.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E13FC3F5510728FDDAF0A94DA405B8689F1D3 |title=Jewish Unit to Break Ground |publisher=The New York Times |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> EMJC began with 115 founding members.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0711FD395D117B93CBA9178FD85F468685F9 |title= No Title|publisher=The New York Times |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/103407628.html?dids=103407628:103407628&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+02%2C+1989&author=&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Sylvia+Morrison%2C+69%2C+of+Freeport&pqatl=google |title=Sylvia Morrison, 69, of Freeport |publisher='']'' |date= July 2, 1989|accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> Harry W. Goldin was a co-founder, President, and Chairman of the synagogue's board of trustees, and Max Feld was a founder and President as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/103121555.html?dids=103121555:103121555&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+30%2C+1993&author=By+Eric+R.+QuinZones.+STAFF+WRITER&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Harry+W.+Goldin%2C+78%2C+Jewish+Leader&pqatl=google|author=Eric R. QuinZones |title=Harry W. Goldin, 78, Jewish Leader |publisher=''Newsday''|date=July 30, 1993 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/741667541.html?dids=741667541:741667541&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+23%2C+2004&author=&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=PAID+OBITUARIES&pqatl=google |title=.|publisher='']'' |date=November 23, 2004 |page=7B|accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>], November 23, 2004]</ref>


In the early 1960s, Melvin May was its Assistant Executive Director.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1709210472.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+26%2C+1962&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=Director+Is+Named&pqatl=google |title=Director Is Named |publisher='']''|date=April 26, 1962 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> Rabbi Israel Nobel was a rabbi of the synagogue in its early days, and Rabbi Irvin Beigel served at EMJC for four years in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/62697414.html?dids=62697414:62697414&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+18%2C+2000&author=Zachary+R.Dowdy.+STAFF+CORRESPONDENT&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Faith+Survives+Arson+at+Synagogue&pqatl=google |title=Faith Survives Arson at Synagogue |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0812FA345A137B93C5AB178DD85F468785F9 |title=Miss Susan Nobel Bride of Physician|publisher=The New York Times |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lLFtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22east+meadow+jewish+center%22&dq=%22east+meadow+jewish+center%22&hl=en&ei=0sJRTMnqNYGclgffm-m2BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=16&ved=0CGQQ6AEwDw |title=Bitsaron: yarḥon la-madʻa, le-sifrut ... – Google Books |publisher=Books.google.com |date=August 26, 2008 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> Paul Carus was a cantor at the synagogue in its early years, as was David Tauber.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104042385.html?dids=104042385:104042385&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+03%2C+1988&author=By+Tony+Schaeffer&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Paul+Carus%2C+72%2C+of+East+Meadow%2C+Noted+Cantor&pqatl=google |title=Paul Carus, 72, of East Meadow, Noted Cantor |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/101733740.html?dids=101733740:101733740&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+16%2C+1994&author=Tony+Schaeffer&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Ethel+Carus%2C+69%2C+Active+in+Jewish+Groups&pqatl=google |title=Ethel Carus, 69, Active in Jewish Groups |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/1436303131.html?dids=1436303131:1436303131&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+27%2C+2008&author=MICHAL+LANDO&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Friends+remember+NY+cantor+lost+in+Ein+Gedi+flash+flood&pqatl=google |title=Friends remember NY cantor lost in Ein Gedi flash flood |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref name="antonnews1">{{cite web|url=http://www.antonnews.com/syossetjerichotribune/2008/02/29/news/cantor.html |title=North Shore Synagogue Cantor David Tauber Dies in Israel |publisher=Antonnews.com |date=February 29, 2008 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> In the early 1960s, Melvin May was its Assistant Executive Director.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1709210472.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+26%2C+1962&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=Director+Is+Named&pqatl=google |title=Director Is Named |publisher='']''|date=April 26, 1962 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> Rabbi Israel Nobel was a rabbi of the synagogue in its early days, and Rabbi Irvin Beigel served at EMJC for four years in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/62697414.html?dids=62697414:62697414&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+18%2C+2000&author=Zachary+R.Dowdy.+STAFF+CORRESPONDENT&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Faith+Survives+Arson+at+Synagogue&pqatl=google|name=Zachary R.Dowdy |title=Faith Survives Arson at Synagogue |publisher=''Newsday''|date=October 18, 2000 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0812FA345A137B93C5AB178DD85F468785F9 |title=Miss Susan Nobel Bride of Physician|publisher=''The New York Times'' |date= July 27, 1972|accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=lLFtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22east+meadow+jewish+center%22&dq=%22east+meadow+jewish+center%22&hl=en&ei=0sJRTMnqNYGclgffm-m2BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=16&ved=0CGQQ6AEwDw |title=Bitsaron: yarḥon la-madʻa, le-sifrut ule-vaʻayot ha-zeman, Issue 312|author=Chaim Tchernowitz|year=1974 |publisher=accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> Paul Carus was a cantor at the synagogue in its early years, as was David Tauber.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104042385.html?dids=104042385:104042385&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+03%2C+1988&author=By+Tony+Schaeffer&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Paul+Carus%2C+72%2C+of+East+Meadow%2C+Noted+Cantor&pqatl=google|author=Tony Schaeffer |title=Paul Carus, 72, of East Meadow, Noted Cantor |publisher=''Newsday''|date=August 3, 1988 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/101733740.html?dids=101733740:101733740&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+16%2C+1994&author=Tony+Schaeffer&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Ethel+Carus%2C+69%2C+Active+in+Jewish+Groups&pqatl=google| author=Tony Schaeffer |title=Ethel Carus, 69, Active in Jewish Groups |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=August 16, 1994 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/1436303131.html?dids=1436303131:1436303131&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Feb+27%2C+2008&author=MICHAL+LANDO&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=Friends+remember+NY+cantor+lost+in+Ein+Gedi+flash+flood&pqatl=google|author=Michal Lando |title=Friends remember NY cantor lost in Ein Gedi flash flood |publisher='']''|date=February 27, 2008 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref><ref name="antonnews1">{{cite web|url=http://www.antonnews.com/syossetjerichotribune/2008/02/29/news/cantor.html |title=North Shore Synagogue Cantor David Tauber Dies in Israel |publisher=Antonnews.com |date=February 29, 2008 |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref>


In the late 1980s, synagogue members protested against alleged Soviet ] violations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104510366.html?dids=104510366:104510366&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+06%2C+1987&author=This+story+was+reported+by+Cope+Moyers+and+Stephanie&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Change+in+Course+for+a+Sputnik&pqatl=google |title=Change in Course for a Sputnik |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref> In the late 1980s, synagogue members protested against alleged Soviet ] violations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/104510366.html?dids=104510366:104510366&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+06%2C+1987&author=This+story+was+reported+by+Cope+Moyers+and+Stephanie&pub=Newsday+(Combined+editions)&desc=Change+in+Course+for+a+Sputnik&pqatl=google |title=Change in Course for a Sputnik |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date= |accessdate=July 29, 2010}}</ref>

Revision as of 22:27, 29 July 2010

East Meadow Jewish Center
Religion
AffiliationJewish (Conservative)
LeadershipRabbi Ronald L. Androphy
StatusActive
Location
Location1400 Prospect Avenue,
East Meadow, New York, U.S.
Geographic coordinates40° 42' 17" N
73° 33' 53" W 40°42′17″N 73°33′53″W / 40.70472°N 73.56472°W / 40.70472; -73.56472
Architecture
GroundbreakingFebruary 27, 1956
Website
East Meadow Jewish Center

East Meadow Jewish Center (EMJC) is a Conservative Jewish synagogue located in East Meadow, New York.

Early history

Ground-breaking ceremonies for the synagogue took place on February 27, 1956. EMJC began with 115 founding members. Harry W. Goldin was a co-founder, President, and Chairman of the synagogue's board of trustees, and Max Feld was a founder and President as well.

In the early 1960s, Melvin May was its Assistant Executive Director. Rabbi Israel Nobel was a rabbi of the synagogue in its early days, and Rabbi Irvin Beigel served at EMJC for four years in the 1980s. Paul Carus was a cantor at the synagogue in its early years, as was David Tauber.

In the late 1980s, synagogue members protested against alleged Soviet human rights violations.

Recent history

Rabbi Ronald L. Androphy has been the rabbi of the synagogue since September 1983. After an alleged racial assault in East Meadow in 1989 in which a white East Meadow man allegedly beat two black teenagers with a golf club, the rabbi joined other local clerics, who said they were motivated by their conscience and felt an obligation to lead the community, in speaking out against the violence.

Rabbi Androphy focused on promoting greater understanding among religious groups. In they synagogue's rabbi stressed the significance of the positive relationship the synagogue had with the local Methodist community. After David Levinton, a 12-year-old Jewish boy who had been a member of the EMJC, died, the local Methodist Church's congregation honored the child. It voted to replace a tree that had fallen down on the church property, and dedicate the new tree to Levinton and to another non-Methodist boy in the community who had also died. In doing so, it voted down proposals to dedicate the tree to Theodore Roosevelt, Jack Kennedy, or Harry Truman.

In 2001, Charles O'Shea, a Nassau County assessor, began to enforce an 1896 New York State law requiring that special tax assessments be paid on homes bought by synagogues and churches for their rabbis and ministers. At the same time, New York state law provided houses of worship with a tax exemption on property used for religious purposes. Androphy observed:

There is a long history in this country of a separation of church and state, and the exemption of religious property from taxes. I think it's a dangerous precedent to set, because if the government can assess taxes for one purpose, what is to prevent it from assessing taxes on church and synagogue property in general? My great fear is that down the line governments might assume that the right to tax gives them the right to regulate. That would be an extremely dangerous breakdown of the separation of church and state.

Activities and membership

In addition to providing prayer services, the synagogue has a nursery school, a Hebrew school, a men's club, a sisterhood, and a youth group. As of 2009, the synagogue had nine torahs.

Ken Martin is EMJC's President. Judge Fred J. Hirsh, of the Nassau County District Court, is among its members.

Rabbi

In 2000, EMJC's Rabbi Androphy became President of the Long Island Board of Rabbis. He is also President of the East Meadow Clergy Association, a member of the Board of Governors of the New York Board of Rabbis, past President of the Rabbinical Assembly of Nassau-Suffolk (a group of Conservative rabbis; his is also Chief Judge of its conversion court), and past Chairman of the Rabbinic Advisory Committee of the UJA Federation of Long Island.

References

  1. "East Meadow Jewish Center Topography, Elevation, Lat, Long, Maps & More". Trails.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  2. Oded Rosen (1983). "The Encyclopedia of Jewish institutions: United States & Canada". Mosadot Publications. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  3. Oscar Israelowitz (1990). "Oscar Israelowitz's Guide to Jewish Canada & U.S.A.: Eastern provinces". Israelowitz Pub. ISBN 096110368X. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  4. "Jewish Unit to Break Ground". The New York Times. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  5. "No Title". The New York Times. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  6. "Sylvia Morrison, 69, of Freeport". Newsday. July 2, 1989. Retrieved July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. Eric R. QuinZones (July 30, 1993). "Harry W. Goldin, 78, Jewish Leader". Newsday. Retrieved July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. . South Florida Sun-Sentinel. November 23, 2004. p. 7B http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/741667541.html?dids=741667541:741667541&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+23%2C+2004&author=&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=PAID+OBITUARIES&pqatl=google. Retrieved July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: |url= missing title (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. Miami Herald, November 23, 2004
  10. "Director Is Named". The Baltimore Sun. April 26, 1962. Retrieved July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. "Faith Survives Arson at Synagogue". Newsday. October 18, 2000. Retrieved July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |name= ignored (help)
  12. "Miss Susan Nobel Bride of Physician". The New York Times. July 27, 1972. Retrieved July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. Chaim Tchernowitz (1974). "Bitsaron: yarḥon la-madʻa, le-sifrut ule-vaʻayot ha-zeman, Issue 312". accessdate=July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: Missing pipe in: |publisher= (help)
  14. Tony Schaeffer (August 3, 1988). "Paul Carus, 72, of East Meadow, Noted Cantor". Newsday. Retrieved July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  15. Tony Schaeffer (August 16, 1994). "Ethel Carus, 69, Active in Jewish Groups". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  16. Michal Lando (February 27, 2008). "Friends remember NY cantor lost in Ein Gedi flash flood". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved July 29, 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. ^ "North Shore Synagogue Cantor David Tauber Dies in Israel". Antonnews.com. February 29, 2008. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  18. "Change in Course for a Sputnik". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  19. http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22east+meadow+jewish+center%22&num=100&as_price=p0&scoring=a&hl=en&ned=us&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=1980&as_hdate=1989&lnav=hist3
  20. "Our Rabbi". Eastmeadowjc.org. December 14, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  21. "E. Meadow Clerics Decry Racism". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  22. ^ http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22east+meadow+jewish+center%22&num=100&as_price=p0&scoring=a&hl=en&ned=us&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=1990&as_hdate=1999&lnav=hist4
  23. ^ "People Of Faith". Pqasb.pqarchiver.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  24. ^ Ain, Stewart (January 14, 2001). "Nassau Plans to Tax Parsonages". Rockville Centre (Ny); Nassau County (Ny): NYTimes.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  25. "Nursery school". Eastmeadowjc.org. December 24, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  26. "Contact Us". Eastmeadowjc.org. January 9, 2007. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  27. Ain, Stewart (June 17, 2009). "A Safer Torah". The Jewish Week. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  28. "Contact Us". Eastmeadowjc.org. January 9, 2007. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  29. "Who's Who in East Meadow: A Guide to Your Community" (PDF). Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  30. "Biography of Hon. Fred J. Hirsh". Nycourtsystem.com. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  31. "Our Rabbi". Eastmeadowjc.org. December 14, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2010.
  32. "Our Rabbi". Eastmeadowjc.org. December 14, 2006. Retrieved July 29, 2010.

External links

Categories: