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Khal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ) is an

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Ashkenazi congregation in the Washington Heights neighborhood, in the

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. It has an affiliated synagogue in the heavily Orthodox

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neighborhood of

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History

The community is a direct continuation of the pre-Second World War Jewish community of

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led by

Samson Raphael Hirsch Samson Raphael Hirsch (; June 20, 1808 – December 31, 1888) was a German Orthodox rabbi best known as the intellectual founder of the '' Torah im Derech Eretz'' school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism. Occasionally termed ''neo-Orthodoxy'', hi ...

. Khal Adath Jeshurun bases its approach, and structure, on Hirsch's philosophy of ''

Torah im Derech Eretz ''Torah im Derech Eretz'' ( he, תורה עם דרך ארץ – Torah with "the way of the land"Rabbi Y. Goldson, Aish HaTorah"The Way of the World", Ethics of the Fathers, 3:21/ref>) is a phrase common in Rabbinic literature referring to vario ...

''; it was re-established according to the protocol originally drawn in 1850, to which the congregation continues to adhere. The community is colloquially called "Breuer's" after Rabbi Joseph Breuer, founder of the American incarnation and its first Rabbi. He was a grandson of Samson Raphael Hirsch.

Nusach

Unlike most Ashkenazic synagogues in the United States, which follow the Eastern Ashkenazic ('' Poilisher'') liturgical

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, KAJ follows the Western Ashkenazic rite, in its liturgical text, practices, and

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. They use the Rödelheim Siddur Sfas Emes (see:

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), though the congregation's nusach varies in some places from

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Full service community

True to the "full-service community" as originally established in Frankfurt, the community includes a synagogue, an elementary school (located at 85 Bennett Avenue), various educational facilities, a social hall, a

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, a '' Beth Midrash'' (these are several blocks north, where Bennett Avenue meets 190th or 191st St). The ''Kehilla'' also offers its members a '' mikveh'', '' Kashrut'' supervision and '' Shechitah''.Parshiyot VaYakhel/Pekudei/ HaChodesh - 5761
, Orthodox Union. Accessed February 22, 2008. The yeshivas go under the name Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. It also offers an independent ''

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''. The members of the community tend to live in the buildings on Bennett Avenue, Overlook Terrace, and the adjacent cross streets towards the west and Fort Washington Avenue.

Rabbis

* Rav Joseph Breuer: founded the American community, led it until his passing in 1980. * Rav Shimon Schwab: In 1958, Rav Breuer recruited Rav Schwab as Rav. Rav Schwab, became head of the community in 1980, until his death in 1995. * Rav Zechariah Gelley: In 1987, Rav Schwab helped select Rav Gelley as the next Rav. Rav Gelley became the community's third leader in 1995, until his Petirah on April 19, 2018. * Rav Yisroel Mantel, previously of Lucerne, Switzerland, was Rav together with Rav Gelley, and became the official Mora D'asra upon Rav Gelley's Petira.

Literature

*Stephen M. Lowenstein: ''Frankfurt on the Hudson, The German Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933-82, Its Structure and Culture'', Wayne State University Press 1989.

References

External links

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"Rabbi Joseph Breuer: The Rav of Frankfurt, U.S.A."
Ernst Bodenheimer, Jewish Observer

Pinchas Frankel, ou.org

Gershon Tannenbaum, jewishpress.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeshurun, Khal Adath Ashkenazi synagogues German-Jewish culture in New York City Orthodox synagogues in New York City Synagogues in Manhattan Washington Heights, Manhattan People from Monsey, New York Yekke