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Felder’s burnt shul, a place I called home The flames that ripped through the landmark Congregation Beth Aaron last Thursday, totally destroying the Boro Park minyan factory and its upstairs apartments, elicited a melancholy wave of nostalgia for those who have known the shul as “Felder’s” since its founding seven decades ago. “When your father was niftar,” one man told State Senator Simcha Felder, the son of shul founder Rav Tzvi Mordechai Felder ztz”l, “I felt that he was still here, because Rabbi Felder was the shul, and the shul was still standing. When I saw that fire, I ...

Yellowstone Public Radio Latke makers Richie and Amy Solomon at the Congregation Beth Aaron latke drive through on the first night of Hanukkah, Dec. 10, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has moved many faith communities to swap in person worship and activities for remote or steaming opportunities. Important holiday traditions have given them an opportunity to be creative. The Christmas Eve service at Eidsvold Lutheran Church in Somers is moving outside this year. Reverend Andrew Wendle says it will be a parking lot distanced service. "People will come and light a luminary. Actually it should be v...

By Michal Rosenberg | December 16, 2020 It’s hard to believe a year has gone by since the horrific car accident that shook the Teaneck community and claimed the life of Shelly Mermelstein, z”l, longtime Teaneck resident, beloved community staple and true baal chesed. In honor of his first yahrzeit, his family gathered together Motzei Shabbat Chanukah, with some close friends, to make two siyumim and remember a man who valued Torah and family above all. Before the Mermelsteins’ oldest son, Chaim Mayer, made a siyum on Shisha Sidrei Mishna, he shared that in every masechet ...

Fire rips through Brooklyn synagogue By FOX 5 NY Staff Published  Firefighters rescued several people including children from the Congregation Beth Aaron in Borough Park. NEW YORK - Dozens of firefighters responded to a blaze that ripped through a synagogue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn Wednesday. Video from the scene showed flames and smoke shooting out from the two-story building of the Congregation Beth Aaron at 4901 18th Avenue. 60 firefighters put out the fire that erupted at about 8:00 a.m. Several people including a mother and two children were pulled from a residence on t...

What is Hanukkah All About? We Ask Billings Student Rabbi Looking at your calendar you may notice that Thursday (12/10) is Hanukkah. Like many Montanans, I knew very little about the Jewish holiday. In fact, I would bet that for most of us, our only exposure to Hanukkah is Adam Sandler's famous song. Longtime residents of Billings may remember the awful hate-crime circumstances that escalated on December 2, 1993 when a brick was thrown through the bedroom window of 6 year old Jewish boy. The window was displaying a menorah, the 9 light (sometimes 7) candle holder that usually looks something...