Jewish Ritual With Real Estate Results
January 22, 2009
Rabbi Gideon Shloush was featured on FOX NEWS with Shepard Smith after meeting with plane crash survivors and their families at the NY Waterways terminal. Rabbi Shloush was there to offer counseling and say prayers with the survivors of US Airways flight 1549 following their plane's miraculous crash landing in the frigid waters of the Hudson River.
Jewish Ritual With Real Estate Results
June 2008
Julie Friedman, an executive vice president with Bellmarc Realty who is observant and lives in the Gramercy-Murray Hill neighborhood, was part of her synagogue's effort to extend the eruv and said it may reshape the Jewish community in the area
Helping Synagogues Meet Members' Needs
May 14,2008
Rabbi Gideon Shloush, the spiritual leader for a dozen years of Congregation Adereth El in Manhattan’s Murray Hill neighborhood, said an all-day conference he attended this week inspired him to change his reading habits.
May 14, 2008
The Murray Hill/Gramercy Park area is transforming into a destination for 20 something singles.
New Midtown Eruv Enhances Shabbat on Campus at Stern College for Women
Sep 11, 2007
"Thanks to a new eruv (Sabbath boundary marker) in Midtown Manhattan that includes Stern College for Women, students and visitors to the Beren Campus can now carry books, keys, and food, and push baby carriages and wheelchairs on Shabbat, which all amounts to a more relaxed Shabbat experience. more »
A Century And A Half And Counting
03/16/2007
Randi Sherman - Editorial Assistant
"The two esrogim for the harvest festival of Sukkot, the synagogue fathers mandated, were to set the fledgling East Side congregation ... more »
The 29th Street Synagogue Celebrates 150th Anniversary
03/14/2007
Oscar Israelowitz
"Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El (also known as “The 29th Street Shul”), New York City’s oldest synagogue in continuous use on the same site, is reaching out to anyone who has shared a simchah or Shabbos there, former members or their descendants, nearby students or visitors to help celebrate its sesquicentennial celebration this year. more »
Murray Hill As Youth Mecca
Hilary Larson - Special To The Jewish Week
"Is Murray Hill the new Upper West Side? Or the new Upper East Side? Or might this increasingly hip neighborhood, which lies south of Grand Central Terminal on the East Side, be a happening new youth mecca all its own... more »
In the battle for unaffiliated Jewish souls, the Manhattan Jewish Experience is expanding its reach downtown.
Carolyn Slutsky - Staff Writer
"There are two words I love — Shabbat, and shalom. Can I hear you say them together?" Jonathan Brody lifts his arms, clad in a pink dress shirt, and rallies the room of 100 young Jews to answer. more »
A Time-Share Pulpit
There may be a 60-year age difference between them, but the two rabbis at Adereth El on the East Side have a unique chemistry.
Steve Lipman - Staff Writer
On a quiet Friday morning, at a table in a nearly empty library, one of the rabbis at Congregation Adereth El, a venerable-but-not-often-venerated synagogue in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan, is telling his story. He was ordained by Yeshiva University and was invited to serve at Adereth El; he wasn’t interested; at 24, he gave it a try, found that he liked the congregation, and never left. more »
A Unique And Upscale Collection
05/12/2004
Hilary Larson - Special To The Jewish Week
Fifteen years ago, after raising a family on Long Island, Mark Wiener moved to Sutton Place, an upscale enclave on the far east side of Midtown Manhattan. Now retired, he chose the neighborhood for its easy commute to his Midtown office... more »
Shimon Lewin
These days, it’s not prudent to arrive late for the Friday-night service at Congregation Shaare Zedek — if grabbing a good seat remains a priority. Ditto for the Sabbath-eve service at Ramath Orah. And if you want a space to hang your coat at Congregation Adereth El on a Saturday morning, good luck. more »
Manhattan shuls looking to the future are tapping twenty- and thirtysomething rabbis. Can the new breed keep young, fickle Jews fired up?
Susan Josephs - Staff Writer
These days, it’s not prudent to arrive late for the Friday-night service at Congregation Shaare Zedek — if grabbing a good seat remains a priority. Ditto for the Sabbath-eve service at Ramath Orah. And if you want a space to hang your coat at Congregation Adereth El on a Saturday morning, good luck. more »
With young rabbi at the helm, Old World synagogue in Murray Hill begins to build a community.
Susan Josephs - Staff Writer
During his simultaneous pursuit of rabbinic ordination and an MBA, Rabbi Gideon Shloush did not know which career path to take. But when he entered the Old World sanctuary of Congregation Adereth El, "I felt an internal pull," he recalls. "There’s something about this synagogue … there’s something about building a community versus arriving at a finished community and simply servicing it." more »
