This year, Passover will be celebrated from the evening of March 27th – the evening of April 4th, 2021. Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Jewish Harlem
Morris Schinasi, Harlem Mansion Owner And Wealthy American Tobacco Businessman, 1855 – 1928
Morris Schinasi, Turkish: Moris Şinasi; born Musa Eskenazi; 1855 – September 10, 1928, Continue Reading →
Harlem’s Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford Prominent Member Of Jewish Community 1887-1935
Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford, 23 April 1877 – 16 September 1935, was a self-proclaimed Rabbi and the founder of a black synagogue in Harlem. Continue Reading →
Old Broadway Synagogue In Harlem, New York 1923
Old Broadway Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in the Manhattanville in Harlem in New York City incorporated in 1911 under the name Chevra Talmud Torah Anshei Marovi, by an immigrant named Morris Schiff. Continue Reading →
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harlem Rabi, Civil Rights Advocate And More, 1907 – 1972
Abraham Joshua Heschel, January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972, was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Continue Reading →
