Congregation Shomrei Emunah (Borough Park)

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Congregation Shomrei Emunah
Hebrew: קהל שומרי אמונה
Religion
AffiliationOrthodox Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organizational statusSynagogue
LeadershipRabbi Aviezer Cohen
StatusActive
Location
Location5202 14th Avenue, Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, New York 11219
CountryUnited States
Congregation Shomrei Emunah (Borough Park) is located in New York City
Congregation Shomrei Emunah (Borough Park)
Location in New York City
Geographic coordinates40°37′55″N 73°59′31″W / 40.63200°N 73.99201°W / 40.63200; -73.99201
Architecture
TypeSynagogue
StyleRomanesque Revival
Date established1907 (as a congregation)
Completed1910

Congregation Shomrei Emunah (

Jewish synagogue located at 5202 14th Avenue, Borough Park, Brooklyn, in New York City, New York
, in the United States.

Founded in 1907, the congregation moved into its present building in 1910. Its current rabbinical leader is Rabbi Aviezer Cohen. Its current chazzan (cantor) is Chazzan Adler. The chazzan sheini (secondary cantor) is Chazzan Nachman Schneider (who is currently the chief cantor at Congregation Beth Israel of Borough Park and cantor emeritus at Congregation Young Israel of Laurence and Cederhurst.)[citation needed]

History

Congregation Shomrei Emunah was established in 1907

Torah scholars;[2] publishing its by-laws on September 3, of that year.[3] In the beginning, services were held in a Masonic hall at New Utrecht Avenue and 56th Street. In 1910 the congregation constructed its own building at the corner of 14th Avenue and 52nd Street. The yellow-brick building in Romanesque Revival style has a large skylight over the bimah.[4]

The subsequent founding of

Beth El
, Congregation Anshei Sfard, and Bnai Yehuda drew membership from Shomrei Emunah, which has been called "The Mother of Jewish Institutions" in Borough Park.
Chofetz Chaim had advised Torah scholars traveling to America that they should turn to Shomrei Emunah upon their arrival.[citation needed] Rabbis who have addressed the congregation include Elchonon Wasserman, Abraham Isaac Kook, and Boruch Ber Leibowitz.[2]

Rabbis

The synagogue installed its first rabbi in 1926.[2] From 1928 to 1935 the rabbi was Wolf Gold,[2][5] a founder of the Williamsburg Talmud Torah and Mesivta Torah Vodaas.[6][7] From 1935 through 1973, Dr. Harry I. Wohlberg, a professor of Bible and homiletic literature at Yeshiva University, was the rabbi.[8] Wohlberg was the first rabbi to receive a lifetime contract from an American Orthodox synagogue.[2] From 1973 through 2008, the rabbi was Yaakov Pollack. In 2008 Aviezer Cohen became the rabbi.

Activities

The synagogue made a name for itself in the Borough Park community with its strong emphasis on

Torah scholars.[2]

In response to news of the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, Shomrei Emunah held a public gathering "where FDR was praised for his stance on behalf of Jews".[9]

In 2009 the synagogue was targeted for an anti-Jewish protest by members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group,[10] led by Fred Phelps.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ Green, Ada (June 28, 2004). "Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers Project / Survey of State and Local Historical Records (1939) / Church Records Jewish – Synagogue". Jewish Genealogical Society. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Summer, Morton (1954). Synagogue and Community In Boro Park. Yeshiva College Yearbook - Masmid. p. 83.
  3. ^ "Constitution and by-laws of the Congregation Shomrei Emunah". S. Levine & Sons. 1907.
  4. ISBN 1878741446
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  5. ^ "Rabbi Installed in Temple Here". bklyn.newspapers.com. Newspapers.com. May 21, 1928. Retrieved February 5, 2018.
  6. ISBN 9780313243165
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  7. ^ Encyclopaedia Judaica. Vol. 7. Keter Publishing. 1972. p. 697.
  8. ^ "Dr. Harry I. Wohlberg". The New York Times. February 7, 1984. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  9. ISBN 978-0230623309
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  10. ^ For hate group descriptor, see:
  11. ^ Chapman, Ben (September 24, 2009). "Kansas Church Travels to Bklyn to Target Jews in Hate Rally". New York Daily News. crownheights.info. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
  12. ^ "Statements To YWN From Hikind, Felder Regarding Hate-Group Protest In Boro Park This Shabbos". Yeshiva World News. September 25, 2009. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
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