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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 ...

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...