East Midwood Jewish Center is a

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located at 1625

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. Organized in 1924, the congregation's

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building (completed in 1929) typified the large multi-purpose synagogue centers being built at the time, and was from the 1990s until 2010 the only synagogue with a working swimming pool in Brooklyn. The building has been unmodified architecturally since its construction, and in 2006 was added to the

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(NRHP). Membership dropped during the

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, and the synagogue suffered financial hardship, but it recovered, and by 1941 had 1,100 member families. In 1950 the congregation built an adjoining school; at its peak its enrollment was almost 1,000. As neighborhood demographics changed in the late 20th century, and Brooklyn's Jewish population became more

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, the East Midwood Jewish Center absorbed three other Conservative Brooklyn congregations. The East Midwood Jewish Center had only three

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s from its founding until 2014. Reuben Kaufman served from 1924 to 1929, Harry Halpern from 1929 to 1977 and Alvin Kass from 1976 to 2014. In 2014, Matt Carl became the rabbi.

History

Founding

East Midwood was organized in 1924 NRHP Continuation Sheet, Section 8, p. 2. by Jacob R. Schwartz, a dentist who was concerned that his two sons had no nearby

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which they could attend. Kaufman (1999), p. 258. From the start his intention had been to create a Conservative synagogue:

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was seen as a compromise between

and

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, providing the familiar (and lengthy)

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services of Orthodox Judaism, but, like Reform, adding some English prayers. East Midwood differed from earlier

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synagogues in New York, as services were to be conducted in Hebrew and English only (not Hebrew and

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), and the members were to come from immigrants from all over Europe, not just one city or region. NRHP Continuation Sheet, Section 8, p. 3. East Midwood held its first annual meeting on November 18, 1924 at the Jewish Communal Center of Flatbush (also known as the Flatbush Jewish Center), NRHP Continuation Sheet, Section 7, p. 3. and there elected its first president, Pincus Weinberg. Weinberg, who was also chair of the Real Estate Committee, was the father of

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, who rose from the job of assistant porter to head

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from 1930 to 1969. Prior to moving to Flatbush, Pincus Weinberg had been president of

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. Greenwald (2001), p. 35. Barton (2006). East Midwood's first

was Reuben Kaufman, and its first

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was Jacob Schraeter. Kaufman, a Brooklyn native, had celebrated his bar mitzvah at Baith Israel Anshei Emes. Levin (2006).

Building construction

The Real Estate Committee almost immediately purchased land located on Avenue L between East 26th and 27th Streets. Most members, however, felt a location on

would be more desirable. Issues arose with developing the land on Avenue L, and in 1925 the Committee purchased the current location at 1625 Ocean Avenue in

. The cornerstone was laid in 1926, and, although not complete, the building was fully enclosed by the autumn, and

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services were held there that year. The Center's

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, which had been created in 1925 and held in a temporary structure, also moved into the new building. EMJC groundbreaking 1925

Designed in the

style, the building was finally completed in 1929 at the cost of $1 million (today $). Kaufman (1999), p. 259. It typified the new "synagogue-centers" being built at that time, combining the functions of both a synagogue and

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, and included "a synagogue, auditorium, kitchens, restaurant, classrooms, gymnasium, and swimming pool". That year Kaufman left the Center to become the rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in

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(JTSA), would go on to serve as rabbi for 49 years, until his retirement in 1977, four years before his death in 1981. Waggoner (1981).

Great Depression and mid-20th century

The

took its toll on the congregation, and membership dropped. In order to cope with the financial burdens, dues were raised, teachers were given endorsed notes rather than paychecks, the Executive Secretary was laid off, pews were sold, and individual members provided mortgage guarantees. The synagogue survived, and membership recovered; by 1934 there were 300 members, and by 1944 there were 1,100. Joseph Eidelson ozef Ajdelsonbecame cantor in 1956. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Eidelson previously served as cantor at Warsaw's Sinai Synagogue, and in 1935 at the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania. In October 1968, then

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was booed and jeered by a huge crowd at the East Midwood Jewish Center, in an infamous incident during the 1968 New York City teachers strike. New York Times, October 16, 1968. Lindsay had supported a school decentralization plan that had pitted mostly black parents against mostly Jewish teachers and school administration; after the administrator of the Ocean Hill— Brownsville school board dismissed 13 teachers and 6 administrators (mostly Jewish) for opposing decentralization, the

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"called a strike that closed 85 percent of the city's 900 schools for 55 days". McFadden (2000). When Lindsay arrived he was met by a mob of 2,000 people outside the synagogue, who shouted "Lindsay must go" and "we want

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". Halpern admonished the protesters, asking "Is this the exemplification of the Jewish faith?", but many replied "yes". Kahlenberg (2007), p. 108. Lindsay was heckled off the podium by the audience inside, and his limousine was "pounded on" and "pelted with trash" by the mob outside (which had grown to 5,000) as he drove away.See Kahlenberg (2007), p. 108, and Dash Moore (2003). The strike, which was marked by "threats of violence and diatribes laced with racism and anti-Semitism", ended when the

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suspended the administrator and the board. Following Halpern's retirement in 1977, East Midwood hired as rabbi Alvin Kass, a graduate of Columbia College and the JTSA, with a Ph.D. in philosophy from

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. Lipsyte (1996).

Late 20th and early 21st century

As Brooklyn's changing demographics made non-Orthodox institutions less viable, East Midwood absorbed three other congregations, including the Jewish Communal Center of Flatbush, NRHP Continuation Sheet, Section 8, p. 4. where East Midwood had held its first annual meeting, and, in 1978, Flatbush's Congregation Shaare Torah. In Loving Memory: Rabbi Aaron Pomerantz, East Midwood Jewish Center website. In 1996, membership was 1,000 families. At that time the membership had become divided over the issue of

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in the synagogue. Though some members left the congregation over this issue, by 2009 East Midwood had become fully egalitarian. According to then-Vice President Michael Sucher "Those individuals who championed depriving women of the rights to be full members of the congregation were overruled by a majority of members who wanted to have an egalitarian Conservative congregation". Dickter (2009). East Midwood Jewish Center menorah

The synagogue building has remained architecturally unchanged since its construction, and was from the 1990s until 2010 the only synagogue in Brooklyn with a functioning swimming pool. In June 2006, it was added to the NRHP. That year the congregation received a $300,000 loan from the

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for repairs for "masonry and steel repairs on the side and rear facades." 2007 Annual Report, New York Landmarks Conservancy, p. 15. It also raised $40,000 in order to receive a 2:1 " matching grant" of $20,000 from the Conservancy, and completed the repair work in 2007. In November 2007 East Midwood was awarded a $409,575 New York State Environmental Protection Fund grant to "restore features of the sanctuary including stained glass windows, stained glass dome and skylight." Press release, Governor Eliot Spitzer, New York State Executive Chamber, November 29, 2007. Environmental Protection Fund Projects, New York State Executive Chamber, November 29, 2007. Aaron Pomerantz joined as associate rabbi in 1978. Born in Poland, he had escaped Europe after the outbreak of

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, moving to Canada and then the United States. There he graduated from Manhattan's Washington Irving High School, and in 1952 received his

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from

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. From 1948 he had served as ritual director and then rabbi of Congregation Shaare Torah, joining the East Midwood Jewish Center when the two congregations merged. He served until his death in May 2009. Joseph Eidelson retired to become Cantor Emeritus in 1995, 9 years before his death in 2004. Sam Levene became East Midwood's cantor in 2004. Born in Jerusalem and raised in Toronto, Levene was a graduate of the H.L. Miller Cantorial School and the JTSA's cantorial program. Kass retired to become Rabbi Emeritus in 2014. During his tenure Kass, also served as a New York City Police Department chaplain for over 40 years, and had previously served as a

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chaplain for two years. At one point during his service as Police Department chaplain he and his family received months of 24-hour security after death threats, and at another he defused a hostage situation by providing the hostage taker with sandwiches from the

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.See Parker & Freeman (2004), pp. 60–61, Jacobs (2006). Kass, who teaches ethics at the Police Academy, was instrumental in getting Jewish police officers time off to observe the

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. He also convinced the NYPD Shomrim Society (the

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of Jewish members of the New York City Police Department) to admit David Durk. Durk, along with the more famous

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, had been the source of the allegations of police corruption that led to the formation of the

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. Matt Carl joined as rabbi in 2014. A graduate of

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and the JTSA , he had previously served as rabbi of Battery Park Synagogue in Manhattan and Congregation Mount Sinai in Brooklyn.

East Midwood Day School

East Midwood Jewish Center ran a successful

for after school Jewish instruction. Mission & History, East Midwood Jewish Center website. As a child in the 1940s, feminist author

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attended it two afternoons a week. Brownmiller. Gay (2012), p. 83. In 1950, the congregation built a three-story school building and a two-story bridge link between the school and synagogue. At its peak in the early 1950s the school had an enrollment of almost 1,000. East Midwood subsequently created a Conservative

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, serving students from kindergarten to Grade 8, and also providing "afternoon religious instruction for public school students through high school" Fioravante (1996)., operated separately from the Talmud Torah. Author and talk show host

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taught at the day school. Koppell (2004). It was later renamed the Rabbi Harry Halpern Day School, in honor of Rabbi Halpern. Like the synagogue, the day school also suffered from Brooklyn's changing (and increasingly Orthodox) demographics; Siegel (2008). enrollment had dropped from 400 students to 99 by the early 21st century. Invigorated by a new principal, enrollment climbed to 160 by 2008, but the school was still not financially stable. In addition, the day school had become more independent in the 1990s, and its relationship with the synagogue deteriorated to that of a tenant to a landlord. As a result, some of the synagogue's board members wanted to evict the school and find a new tenant. In 2009 the synagogue and the school signed a new agreement to bring the two organizations closer again, under which the synagogue would absorb some of the school's costs, and the parents of school children would become members of the synagogue. According to the synagogue's website, however, in 2018 the day school "reorganized itself, and modified into a more orthodox tradition". The Talmud Torah continued to operate as a congregational school.

Architecture

The East Midwood Jewish Center synagogue building's architect is uncertain. Howe (2009), section 8, page 10, footnote 35. The design is officially credited to the Building Committee and Irving Warshaw, the construction superintendent. The architect's name is not recorded in synagogue records, nor on the building's dedicatory plaque. The Center's

(NRHP) nomination form, however, argues that the architect was Louis Abramson, based on visual evidence and one piece of written evidence. Abramson was a leading architect of synagogue-centers at that time. He designed a number of New York examples, including the original synagogue-center, the Manhattan Jewish Center (1918), as well as the Brooklyn Jewish Center, the Flatbush Jewish Center, and the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center (all constructed in Brooklyn between 1920 and 1924). While the Flatbush Jewish Center has been completely remodeled, the Brooklyn and Ocean Parkway Jewish Centers are visually similar to the East Midwood Jewish Center, and the Brooklyn Jewish Center in particular has an identical layout. The written evidence consists of an entry in a souvenir journal commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Flatbush Jewish Center, stating that Abramson drew East Midwood's plans. The NRHP nomination form speculates that Abramson drew the basic plans for the East Midwood Center, and that the Building Committee completed them, in order to save money. Alternatively, Maurice Courland's 1957 obituary claims the East Midwood Jewish Center as his work.See New York Times, November 18, 1957, which also attributes the design of the Flatbush Jewish Center to Courland. Courland also designed a number of synagogues and New York landmarks, including Brooklyn's Magen David Synagogue. Howe (2009), section 8, page 10.

Famous members

Famous congregational members have included

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, who was

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at East Midwood, Pogrebin (2007), p. 19. rather than having her bat mitzvah there, because (at the time) Conservative Judaism did not have bat mitzvah ceremonies for girls (a fact Ginsberg could not understand). Bader Ginsburg (2016), pp 15–17. Dolsten (2016). When Ginsberg was 13 she also had essays published in the synagogue's bulletin about Stephen S. Wise, and on prejudice and world unity following

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. Filmmaker

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was also a member; Kalish (2005). Levin's grandfather, Herman Levin, had been a president of the East Midwood Jewish Center, and had also helped found, and been a long-time lay-leader of, the Reconstructionist movement. New York Times, April 2, 1990. East Midwood has also had members who have died under tragic circumstances, including Jason Sekzer, who was killed in the

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, The 4,000 Jews Rumor,

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. Edward (2008). Chandler (2008). Yaniv (2008).

Media appearances

In 2018 scenes from the television series ''

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'' were filmed here. Ginsberg (2018).

References

Bibliography

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External links

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