Archives of The Synagogue Journal

During 2006 Kane Street Synagogue produced a historical journal in celebration of the congregation's first 150 years. The series covered the following topics:
Beginnings - Brooklyn’s First Synagogue - Early Alternatives - 19th Century Leaders - Brooklyn’s First Jewish School -Sacred Music - Harrison Street Synagogue - Congregations Merge - Purim - Mid-20th Century Leaders - Women & the Synagogue - Weddings - Passover - Holocaust Remembrances - Israel - B’nai Mitzvah - Shavuot - Anniversaries - Summertime - Death and Remembrance - Children - Shabbat - Rosh Hashanah - Yom Kippur - Sukkot & Simchat Torah - Adult Education - Social Action - Cultural Programs - Jews in America - Wartime - The Congregation - Synagogue Renewal - Rabbi Israel Goldfarb - Chanukah - Gathering History

Index of articles:

Beginnings - January 6, 2006
Baith Israel’s First Congregation - By Carol Levin
Baith Israel: 1855-1856 - Shows the “Member’s Roll” and “Trustees 1855-1856”.
Seat Assignments in 1856
Act of Incorporation
“The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac”
“Reformed Judaism” - Brooklyn Eagle; Date: FEB 11, 1870
(download PDF)
“Consecrating a Jewish Burial Ground” - Brooklyn Eagle, December 30, 1857
“United Brethren”- Brooklyn Eagle; Date: JULY 18, 1877

Brooklyn’s First Synagogue - January 13, 2006
Photograph of the Boerum Place Synagogue
“A Synagogue in Brooklyn” - Brooklyn Eagle, January 9, 1862
“The Laying of a Cornerstone of a Synagogue” - Brooklyn Eagle, January 13, 1862
“Consecration of a Hebrew Synagogue” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 1, 1862
“Beth Israel. Reconstruction of the Boerum Place Synagogue” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 8, 1879
“Improving a Synagogue” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 24, 1882
“New Houses Going Up” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 31, 1889
“The Sexton of a Synagogue Robbed” - Brooklyn Eagle; Date: September 10, 1877
“Reopening of a Synagogue”
- Brooklyn Eagle, March 22, 1889
“The Daughters of Israel Benefit Society” - Brooklyn Eagle, November 24, 1901
“Grand Sunday Night Concert” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 4, 1899

Early Alternatives - January 20, 2006
“Jewish Synagogues”- Eagle Almanac, 1889
"Assault on a Jewish Rabbi" - Brooklyn Eagle, June 8, 1866
“Temple Israel”
- Brooklyn Eagle, December 6, 1869
“Thirtieth Anniversary of Beth Elohim” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 25, 1891
“Beth Elohim” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 21, 1870
“Reform and Orthodox. Opposing Hebrew Schools of Thought” - Brooklyn Eagle, August 21, 1884
“The Jewish Day of Atonement” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 11, 1883
“Synagogue Dedicated” – Congregation Ahavith Achim - Brooklyn Eagle, September 13, 1873
“A New Jewish Temple” – Dedication of Congregation Beth-El" - Brooklyn Eagle, September 12, 1887
“Coney Island’s First Synagogue”
- Brooklyn Eagle, December 2, 1889
“Synagogue for Rockaway” – Temple Israel - Brooklyn Eagle, January 15, 1900
“New Hebrew Congregation” – Shaari Zedek - Brooklyn Eagle, October 29, 1902

19th Century Leaders - January 27, 2006
Rabbi Marcus Friedlander’s Legacy: A New Chapter in Baith Israel’s History - By Carol Levin
“Judaism in Brooklyn” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 27, 1891
“Hebrew Notes” - Brooklyn Eagle, December 17, 1899
“Personal – Meyers” - Brooklyn Eagle, August 4, 1879
“The Story of the Talmud” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 19, 1891
“Put in the Ark” - Brooklyn Eagle, April 08, 1889
“Obituary – Michael Lamm”- Brooklyn Eagle, December 16, 1902
“Obituary – Moses Hess” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 11, 1889

Brooklyn’s First Jewish School - February 3, 2006
“Correspondence. Brooklyn, N. Y.” c.1880
“Sunday School Beth Israel. Closing Examinationr” - Brooklyn Eagle, August 7, 1876
“Beth Israel. Interesting Entertainment"- Brooklyn Eagle, December 24, 1877
“A Hebrew Sunday School Union” - Brooklyn Eagle, July 7, 1884
“Hebrews Who Kept Christmas”- Brooklyn Eagle, December 27, 1885
“Baith Israel. The Sunday School’s First Entertainment” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 8, 1888
"For the Library Fundl”- Brooklyn Eagle, March 14, 1890

Sacred Music - February 10, 2006
From a Conversationwith Joseph Goldfarb
“Israel Goldfarb (1879-1967) Rabbi, Cantor and Influential Composer”
- By Rabbi Henry Michelman
Origins of “Shalom Aleichem”
Music by Israel Goldfarb and Samuel E. Goldfarb
”Sound of Music at Kane Street”
- The Scroll, Winter 1996 - By Rachel Epstein
Music at the Boerum Place Synagogue - By Carol Levin
“Welsh’s Banjo – Causes Another Panic Among the Salvationists” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 9, 1887
“City News and Gossip” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 19, 1856

Harrison Street Synagogue - February 17, 2006
Prior Use of the Synagogue Site and Structure - By Carol Levin
Recollections of the Early Synagogue - Joseph Goldfarb
Harrison Street Synagogue, School Building , The Bema Prior to 1929 - Photos
“City News and Gossip” - Brooklyn Eagle, July 31, 1855
“Facts About Tompkins Pace”- Brooklyn Eagle, October 19, 1890
"Passing Into Other Hands - Brooklyn Eagle, April 17, 1887
“Was Not Saved” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 8, 1887
“Salvation Army Sacrilege”
- Brooklyn Eagle, June 11, 1887
“A Salvationists Parade... With the Singing of Female Warriors” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 19, 1887
“Barnes Begins...Harrison Street Nuisance is Likely to be Abated” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 22, 1876
“The Harrison Street Variety Show” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 23, 1887
“Protest Against the Accompaniments of the Noisy Religionists” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 24, 1887
“Surprised and Indignant. The Trustees of the Harrison Street Church Property” - Brooklyn Eagle, July 6, 1887
“Evacuating Harrison Street. Salvation Army About to Sell” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 23, 1887

Congregations Merge - March 3, 2006
Brief History of the 1908 Consolidation - By Carol Levin
Archival Research on Hevre Talmud Torah - By Carolyn Shapiro and Sarah Shapiro
“Hebrews Consolidating. A Movement to Unite Three Congregationst”- Brooklyn Eagle, April 7, 1883
“Consolidation of Local Hebrew Churches”- Brooklyn Eagle, April 7, 1883
“Union of Hebrews Congregations. A Movement to Consolidate” - Brooklyn Eagle, April 26, 1883
“Going to Unite – Beth Elohim and Temple Israel Congregations” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 3, 1886

Purim - March 10, 2006
First Purim Festival – Sunday Evening, March 5, 1882
- Handbill
“Purim Ball. Annual Festivities of the Eastern District Hebrew Benevolent Society.” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 11, 1884
“Hebrew Benevolent Societies. A Joint Civic and Masquerade Ball Given Last Night” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 20, 1889
“Reopening of a Synagogue”- Brooklyn Eagle, March 22, 1889
“A Purim Entertainment By the Scholars of Baith Israel Sunday School”- Brooklyn Eagle, April 3, 1889
“The Royal Jewess – Performed by Baith Israel Sunday School”- Brooklyn Eagle, March 27, 1891
“Don’t Come As You Are” - The Scroll, 1987
“Purims Past” - The Scroll, February 1986
“Purim Letter” - Alan Rubenstein

Mid-20th Century Leaders - March 17,2006
Presidents in the Goldfarb Years
The Weinberg Family
Photograph of the Board of Trustees
Four Who Kept the Congregation Alive
“A Historical View from Rabbi Ray Scheindlin”
- By Rabbi Ray Scheindlin, L’Dor VaDor, January 2002
“Julius I. Kahn” - By Rachel Epstein - The Scroll, December 1977
“An Interview with Jacob Hertz” - By Sara Sloan from BIAE Journal

Women & the Synagogue - March 24, 2006
“Daughters of Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, August 18, 1875
“Picnic of the Daughters of Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, August 13, 1884
“The Daughters of Israel. The Thirteenth Annual Picnic of Its Benefit Society”, Brooklyn EagleJuly 16, 1887
" Daughters of Israel. Tenth Annual Ballt”- Brooklyn Eagle, November 29, 1882
“General Matters in the Courts. Daughters of Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, May 10, 1884
“Held Last Night” - Brooklyn Eagle, January 23, 1899
“Daughters of Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, January 22, 1899
“Daughters of Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 3, 1902
“Woman’s Place in the Jewish Synagogue”- Brooklyn Eagle, December 1, 1878
“Getting Ready for the Big Jewish Hospital Fair”
- Brooklyn Eagle, October 12, 1902
Women’s Organizations - By Carol Levin
Sisterhood Minute Book (1912-1920)
Egalitarian Milestones
The Women’s Movement
- By Judith R. Greenwald
"An Interview With Ann Rosalsky" - By Judy Greenwald, BIAE Journal of 1988

Weddings - March 31, 2006
“An Interesting Marriage Ceremony” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 11, 1884
“Mated for Life – Brooklynites Abandoning the Single State” - Brooklyn Eagle,January 30, 1889.
“The Old Orthodox Way. An Interesting Hebrew Wedding" - Brooklyn Eagle, Jan. 21, 1889.
“Married” Morris-Bass”- Brooklyn Eagle" July 11, 1864
“Hymeneal. Levy-Cohen”- Brooklyn Eagle, December 8, 1879
“Hymeneal. DeLeante-Biaz” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 3, 1885
“Hymeneal. Jackson-Bass” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 19, 1885
“Hymeneal. Golde-Levyson” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 29, 1882
“Hymeneal. Levison-Wolfe” - Brooklyn Eagle, November 29, 1889
“Levinson-Coleman" - Brooklyn Eagle, September 1, 1890
“A Pretty Home Wedding.Miss Mothner and Mr. Zeffer” - Brooklyn Eagle, Nov 9, 1890
“Lehman-Levison” - Brooklyn EagleDecember 15, 1892
“Is Marriage a Failure? Barasch-Jacobs” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 19, 1892
“Marbe-Jacobs” -, Brooklyn Eagle, February 22, 1893
“Two Hearts. Suit for Commission” - Brooklyn Eagle, May 22, 1878
“In A Synagogue not far from the City Hall” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 24, 1889
Rabbi Goldfarb’s Marriage Registry - By Maureen Weicher
Wedding Booklet: May, 1998 - By Renee Schneider and Jonathan Kaplan

Passover - April 7, 2006
“Passover in Jail. Warden Brymer’s Privilege for Hebrew Prisoners” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 29, 1888
“The Feast of Passover. How It Will be Observed” - Brooklyn Eagle, April 1, 1890
“Jews Rejoice. The Passover Season Celebrated” - Brooklyn Eagle, April 5, 1890
“The Passover. Beginning of the Great Jewish Feast” - Brooklyn Eagle, April 12, 1892
“Hebrew Notes”- Brooklyn Eagle, March 31, 1901
In Preparation for Passover 2006

Holocaust Remembrances - April 21, 2006
Selected Art and Writings of Fred Terna: Ramp to the Ovens, The Ovens, Biographical Notes,
About the Artist, "The UN International Day In Support of Victims of Torture”, "The Last Expression:
Art and Auschwitz" “Yom HaShoah 2004”
Yom HaShoah Program Notes – April 18, 2003
“Yom HaShoah” - The Scroll, 1995
“A Joyous Occasion: Scroll Dedication” - The Scroll, April 1986

Israel - May 5, 2006
"Convention of Zionists” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 27, 1898
"Hebrew Notes” - Brooklyn Eagle,June 10, 1900
“Hebrew Notes” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 17, 1900
“To the President of the United States of America” – Petition, 1917
“Rabbis Write President” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 2, 1918
“From Egypt to England” - The Scroll, April 1947
BIAE Members Establish Colony Raananah, Palestine – 1922 - By Fani Brown Brandenburg
Kane Street Family Makes Aliyah to Ra’anana, Israel - 2005
Warm Encounters in Israel - By Rachel Epstein
Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg on the Masorti Movement - The Scroll, April 1987
The Masorti Movement 2006 - “Kehillot B’Yachad / Congregations Together

B’nai Mitzvah - May 19, 2006
“Confirmation” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 1, 1879
“A Hebrew Confirmation” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 4, 1880
“Jewish Confirmations” - Brooklyn Eagle, August 20, 1887
“Man’s Estate” - Brooklyn Eagle, January 25, 1890
“Hebrew Rites”- Brooklyn Eagle, May 26, 1890
Bar Mitzvahs of the 1930s - Albert Socolov, Joseph Goldfarb and Irving Weissler
Confirmations of Faith
Photo:
Esther Gottesman, Emily Socolov and Albert Socolov
B’nai Mitzvah Twinning with Soviet Jewry – 1987
“Why is this boy’s bar mitzvah so special?”- The Jewish Week, before June 29, 1991
“Ancient Rite, Modern Means”- The New York Times, May 16, 1999, By Katherine E. Finkelstein
B'nai Mitzvah Directory

Shavuot - June 2, 2006
“The Feast of Weeks. Confirmations in the Baith Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, May 20, 1885
“Hebrew Notes” - Brooklyn Eagle, May 20, 1900
 “Pentecost. General Celebration of the Great Jewish Festival” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 1, 1892
Shavuoth - The Scroll, 1935, Rabbi Israel Goldfarb
Rabbi’s Message - The Scroll, June 1996, Rabbi Debra Cantor
Texts distributed at the 2006 Tikkun Study Session

Anniversaries - June 9, 2006
Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes - Chronology 1853 - 2006
Rabbis, Cantors and Presidents 1856 – 2006 - List
Anniversary Celebrations 1881- 2006 - List
“The Achai Israel Ball”
- Brooklyn Eagle, December 22, 1881
“To Celebrate an Anniversary” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 16, 1887
“Congregation Baith Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 20, 1900
“Congregation Baith Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 11, 1891
History Repeats Itself - By Judy Greenwald
Centennial Banquet - Photo, May 13, 1956

Summertime - June 30, 2006
"On Columbia Street” - Brooklyn Eagle, July 5, 1876
“The Hebrews. The Relative Rights of these People and Hotel Keepers”
- Brooklyn Eagle, July 22, 1879
"Vacation News From the Summer Resorts” - Brooklyn Eagle, July 25, 1897
“Beth Israel Sunday School” - Brooklyn Eagle, August 15, 1878
“Beth Israel. Annual Picnic of the Boerum Place Congregation” - Brooklyn Eagle, August 7, 1879
“Pleasing in the Extreme”
- Brooklyn Eagle, August 7, 1879
“Hebrew Sunday School Picnic. A Day of Enjoyment at Prospect Park” - Brooklyn Eagle, July 8, 1885
“Sun, Fun and Torah” - The Scroll, September 1985, By Bob Weinstein
“A Sense of Community” - The Scroll, May 1986, By Ed Brill
“Seven Reasons to Come to the Shabbaton” - The Scroll, May/June 1994, By Roberta Kahn
“The Shabbaton Approaches!” - The Scroll, May/June 1994, By Bernice Rosenthal, Ed Brill and Bob Weinstein
“Summer Shabbat”

Death and Remembrance - July 28, 2006
“Tishoh Be Av. Festival Commemorative of the Destruction of the Second Temple”- Brooklyn Eagle, July 28, 1879
“The Black Fast. Observance by the Jews of the Fast Day Tishoh B’av”- Brooklyn Eagle, July 29, 1879
“Consecrating a Jewish Burial Ground” - Brooklyn Eagle, December 30, 1856
“Our Hebrew Cemeteries. A Morning Stroll Among the Cypress Hills” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 20, 1886
“A Remarkable Funeral” - Brooklyn Eagle, January 17, 1887
“Buried in Salem Fields. A Peculiar Question” - Brooklyn Eagle, March 3, 1889
“A Merry Funeral. Celebration ...in Jerusalem" - Jewish Messinger, September 19, 1886
“Died in the Synagogue”- Brooklyn Eagle, September 6, 1898
“Funeral of Simon Brenner” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 8, 1898
“Obituary.  Mrs. Caroline Brenner”- Brooklyn Eagle, September 23, 1900
Tisha b'Av 2006
When Death Occurs
- By Rabbi Sam Weintraub
Our Cemeteries
Letter from Cemetery Board Chairman Louis Summer - November 1922
Memorials

Children - September 7, 2006
School History at the Centennial - Centennial Banquet Journal, 1956, By Rabbi Goldfarb
Student Life at the Synagogue: 1920s - 1930s - Notes from Joseph Goldfarb, Belle Goldfarb Lehrman and Albert Socolov
The Kane Street Nursery – 1971 - By Rabbi Elliott Rosen
The Hebrew School Today - By Jennifer Newfeld
Kane Street Kids - By Joyce Heller
Kadima & BBUSY - By Dina Garfinkle
Teen Scholarship - By Julia Mayer
“Our Talmud Torah” - 1929 Souvenir Journal
School Board Report of 1935 - By School Board Chairman Isaac Goldberg

Shabbat - September 15, 2006
"Hebrews...the Question of Changing the Jewish Sabbath"- Brooklyn Eagle, May 27, 1884
"The Jewish Sabbath"
-Brooklyn Eagle, June 8, 1884
"To the Editor" - Brooklyn Eagle, June 8, 1884
"The Jewish Sabbath"  - Brooklyn Eagle, May 3, 1890
The Rabbi, Shames, Reader, Gabbai, Ba’al Kore - Notes from Joseph Goldfarb
Shabbat Melodies - By Beth Steinberg
"Bob Weinstein" - By Geraldine K. Gross - 143rd Anniversary, 1999
Gabbai’s Daughter - By Sheila J. Rabin
Childrens Services - By Jennifer Newfeld
Shabbat Club - By Jennifer Newfeld
Synaplex: A Full Range of Jewish Experience - By Jennifer Newfeld
Services and Study Groups - 2006 Programs

Rosh Hashanah - September 22, 2006
"Rosh Hashanah. The Celebration of the Jewish New Year" - Brooklyn Eagle,September 30, 1875
"The Jewish New Year" -Brooklyn Eagle, September 27, 1878
"Rosh Hashana ... Sermon by Rabbi Meyer" - Brooklyn Eagle, September 18, 1879
"The Jewish New Year" - Brooklyn Eagle, September 8, 1888
"Sermons of a New Year" - Brooklyn Eagle, September 22, 1892
Kane Street Memoir- By Rabbi Ray Scheindlin
Sound the Great Shofar - By Barbara Zahler-Gringer
Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2001 - By Rabbi Sam Weintraub
Subjects of S’licot Remarks - By Fred Terna
A Rosh Hashanah Walk - By Carol Levin
Cox Sons and Vining: Tailors to the Clergy - Notes from Joseph Goldfarb
Baith Israel’s Prayer book from 1893 - Image of page
Seats for the High Holidays 5688 – 1927 - BIAE Archive
Rental of Seats: 5693 – 1932 1936 Announcement of Seats - BIAE Archive

Yom Kippur - September 29, 2006
High Holidays Admission Tickets from 1951 and 2006; Kol Nidre Pledge card 2006.
"Day of Atonement" - Brooklyn Eagle, October 5, 1889
"Sundown to Sundown" - Brooklyn Eagle, October 1, 1892
Yom Kippur Memories - Notes by Aaron Copland, Joseph Goldfarb and Albert Socolov
Melodic Inspirations - By Beth Steinberg
A History of the Alternative Services - By Bob Marx
High Holy Days, Then and Now - By Raphael Schklowsky
Tot Shabbat and High Holidays Services - By Hedda Kafka Grupper
Storytelling on the Holidays - By Jonathan Katz

Sukkot and Simchat Torah - October 6, 2006
“Local Brevities” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 19, 1872
“The Feast of Tabernacles” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 6, 1873
“The Jewish Holidays” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 11, 1874
“Music, Mirth and Beauty” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 10, 1879
“Feast of Tabernacles” - Brooklyn Eagle,October 10, 1889:
“Free Sons of Israel Anniversary Dance and Dine and Entertain” - Brooklyn Eagle,October 21, 1889
Sukkot at Kane Street - By Ralph Kleinman
Sukkahs at the Schneiders and the Synagogue - By Howard Schneider
The Year the Atlantic Antic fell on Shemini Atzeret - The Scroll, September 1979

Adult Education - October 13, 2006
“Hebrew Progress” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 19, 1891
“The Hebrew Family – a Migratory People on the Road to Progress” - Br ooklyn Eagle, April 27, 1891
“New Literary League” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 25, 1901
Sleepless Wednesdays - By Tim Rucinski
Perek Yomi: One Student’s Perspective - By Iris Katzner
Learning – Fall 2006

Social Action - October 20, 2006
"Hospitality. An Appeal on Behalf of the Jews from Russia”- Brooklyn Eagle, March 6, 1882
“Provided For the Wants of the Hebrew Orphans of the City” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 29, 1883
 “Its Nineteenth Annual Report” - Brooklyn Eagle, Feb 25, 1890
“In Aid of Russian Refugees” - Brooklyn Eagle, April 4, 1892
Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry – Marching on Fifth Avenue 1983 - Photo
The Save Darfur Campaign - By Karen Elam
Addressing the Global Warming Crisis - By Sharon Neuman
The Scroll Archives - Twenty-four articles on Social Action from the last two decades
Volunteer Opportunities 2006-2007

Cultural Programs - October 27, 2006
“Grand Sacred”- Brooklyn Eagle, January 26, 1880
“Beth Israel Entertainment” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 1, 1902
“B. I. Literary League” - Brooklyn Eagle, December 12, 1902
“Finding an Excuse to Celebrate Copland” - The Forward. December 10, 2004, By Benjamin Levisohn
Notes from Michael Boriskin - Article by the Artistic and Executive Director of Copland House
The Copland Family and BIAE
“Dear Mrs. Rubinow”
- Aaron Copland wrote this note to Rabbi Goldfarb’s daughter in 1961

Jews in America - November 3, 2006
A Thank You Note from Christ Church - April 2, 1939
The Old Neighborhood - Notes by Eli Wallach, Irving Weissler, Albert Socolov and Joseph Goldfarb
“Gateway to Jewish Life” - The Jewish Week, July 24, 1998 - By Geraldine K. Gross
“Going Their Separate Ways” - The Jewish Week, June 15, 2001
"Liberal Jewish Day School Sought” - The Scroll, October 1985
The Jewish Community of South Brooklyn - By Marion  Stein
“Thanksgiving by the Brooklyn Israelites” - Brooklyn Eagle, Decembe 1, 1860           
“Congregation “Baith Israel”- Brooklyn Eagle, April 21, 1865
“The Hebrews Among Us” - Brooklyn Eagle, December 30, 1870
“The Streets of Brooklyn. Their Peculiarities and Populations” - Brooklyn Eagle, July 1, 1872
“Mr. Michael Gruschenski” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 17, 1879
“Funeral of Michael Gru” - Brooklyn Eagle, June 11, 1900
“Moneyed Men. Our Wealthy and Influential Hebrews” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 1, 1880
“The Jews. Mr. Beecher on Their Suppression in Germany..."- Brooklyn Eagle, December 27, 1880
“The Judgement Against the Long Island Cable Road” - Brooklyn Eagle, January 15, 1891
“The Columbian Celebration” - Brooklyn Eagle, October 7, 1892
“An Army of Merchants” - Brooklyn Eagle, February 12, 1893
“Strange Restaurants. Brooklyn Has Many Peculiar Eating Houses" - Brooklyn Eagle, August 4, 1895
 “Kosher Butchers to Quit” - Brooklyn Eagle, May 13, 1902
“Flays Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitic Views” - Brooklyn Eagle, November 27, 1920

Wartime - November 10, 2006
Our Service to Our Country - By Rabbi Israel Goldfarb, Centennial Banquet Journal, 1956
Our Civil War Hero - By Judith R. Greenwald
Photograph of Lt. Col. Leopold C. Newman Credit:New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center
Wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville - Brooklyn Eagle, May 9, 1863
Lieut. Col. Newman - Brooklyn Eagle, May 29, 1863
The Late Lieut.-Col. Newman - Brooklyn Eagle, June 13, 1863
The Jews True Patriots - The New York Times, May 8, 1899
What’s a Nice Jewish Girl Like You Doing in Combat Boots? - By Esther Levine-Brill
Ticket to Ball Honoring Our Gallant Boys From "Over There" - BIAE Archives
Tablet Unveiled for Overseas Men - Brooklyn Eagle, October 20, 1919
Gravestone and Tablet - Photo - BIAE Archives
Heroes of The Great War - BIAE Archives
Oldest Boro Temple Welcomes GIs Back - Brooklyn Eagle, April 8, 1946

The Congregation - November 17, 2006
On the Path of Abraham and Sarah - By Rabbi Sam Weintraub
Are There Any Converts in the House? - By Timothy J. Rucinski
By the Numbers: Kane Street at 150 Years - By Mickey Green
Kashruth – Jewish Dietary Laws – For the Kitchen at Kane Street Synagogue
“From the Beginning…” - United Synagogue Biennial Report, 1987-1989
Louis J. Moss Obituary - New York Times, March 19, 1948
“Rabbi gets set for her new hurdle”- New York Daily News, August 31, 1988
Making Kane Street Accessible to All - L’Dor VaDor, January 2002, By Mickey Green and Rob Stulberg

Synagogue Renewal - December 1, 2006
Renewal and Rededication - Chronology
“Before” Photos of the Community Building - Feasibility Study and Condition Survey, September 2000
"In Wake of World Trade Center Disaster..." - L’dor Vador, November 2001
A View of Heaven - Photo
A Brief History - By Howard Schneider, October 24, 2005
Images of the Campaign and Construction
Next Steps: Restoring the Sanctuary
- By Susan Rifkin
“Laying the Cornerstone of a Synagogue” - Brooklyn Eagle, January 13, 1862
“Reconstruction of Beth Israel” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 8, 1879
“Put in the Ark” - Brooklyn Eagle, April 8, 1889
“Jews Rededicate Oldest Synagogue” - Brooklyn Eagle, September 23. 1929
“Temple Ends Drive” - Brooklyn Eagle, May 14, 1941
"Rites Set to Mark Renovation of Boro Synagogue" - Brooklyn Eagle, January 11, 1953

Rabbi Israel Goldfarb - December 8, 2006
Portrait - Photo Anniversary journal, 1916
A Biographical Sketch - Dinner souvenir book, 1940
"Your Children’s Jewish Education" - 30th Anniversary Journal, January 30, 1938
Goldfarb Publications - Titles and music
Centennial Message - Centennial Banquet Journal
Centennial Fundraiser - Photo, 1956
"In Memoriam" - The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Graduation Exercises June 4, 1967
"Israel Goldfarb..." - Obituary, The New York Times, February 14, 1967
"The Journey of a Hebrew Melody: Rabbi Israel Goldfarb’s Shalom Aleichem" - By Rabbi Henry D. Michelman

Chanukah - December 15, 2006
"Channuccah” - Brooklyn Eagle, December 4, 1877
“Hebrews Who Kept Christmas" - Brooklyn Eagle, December 27, 1885
"A Chanuka Festival” - Brooklyn Eagle, December 23,1889                    
“Sees Jews Growing Weaker in Faith” - Brooklyn Eagle, December 19, 1927
“Chanukah Reflections” - The Scroll, 1939, By Rabbi Goldfarb
“The Miracle of Chanukah - Symbol of Jewish Immortality”- The Scroll, December 1959, By Rabbi Goldfarb
“Chanukah Party” - The Scroll, December 1985
“The Rabbi’s Message” - The Scroll, January 1986, By Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg
“Kane St. Synagogue greets Russian Jews” - Brooklyn Paper Publications, January 11-17, 1990
“I Have a Little Dreidel – The True Story” - Being Jewish, Winter 2001/5762, By Susan Wolf

Gathering History - December 29, 2006
Synagogue Publications
Seventy-four Years of “The Scroll”
- Images of banner
The First Bulletin
- Editorial Page, The Scroll, March 11, 1932
Celebrating 150 Years: 1856-2006 - Events of 2006

Historical Preservation
- Photographs of Archivists, Curators, Raconteurs and Editors
Marriage Registry - File of Marriages from 1904-1955
Marriage Records - Study by Maureen Weicher
A Survey of Surveys - Study by Julia Hirsch
Kane Street Synagogue Archives - http://www.jtsa.edu/research/ratner/conrec/inst_kanestreet.shtml
Kane Street’s Safe Makes News - Articles and photographs
Archeology - By Thomas Clarke
The Search for the Rosenbergs - By Jack and Linda Winkleman

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