Comments on: Ashkenazim in a Sephardi Shul

By: Leora

Leora — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:31:21 +0000

Thanks for leaving a comment on the blog!

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:25:12 +0000

All true . . . (based on my own experience at the shul)
Leora, I love your blog. Julie mentioned that you have a blog, but I never saw it before. Wonderful posts.

By: frumhouse

frumhouse — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:51:39 +0000

What a great post! I heartily agree with you about both food and friendliness. I don’t normally daven at a Sephardic synagogue, but we have a wonderful rabbi in town who is sephardic and gives community shiurim that I try to attend whenever possible. The folks there are very friendly and down to earth. It is also nice to see such a mix of cultures in one place.

Guess your husband took to his new surroundings and then some!

By: Leora

Leora — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:37:37 +0000

Larry, Big welcome! Nice to have another Highland Parker on board. If it's the same Lily, she's my neighbor. I wrote about her Gondi in my Recipe Ramblings post.

By: Larry Lennhoff

Larry Lennhoff — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:29:50 +0000

I’m friends with one of the Sephardic women who regularly cook for shul events at Etz Ahaim (Lily). I always enjoy my infrequent visits there. It is also one of the two shuls in town which are not referred to by its initials (although there is no sign of Khal Chassidim become KC, so that may be less of a differentiator eventually.)

By: Leora

Leora — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:18:46 +0000

Batya, sounds like you’ve got the international flavor, too.

Raizy and Jack: we used to call ourselves epicurean members of Etz Ahaim. Because before we joined formally we would show up whenever our neighbors invited us to a fancy kiddush.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:15:05 +0000

Good food is right. Yum.

By: Raizy

Raizy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:08:31 +0000

I know what you mean about Sephardic food. I used to be married to a Sephardic man, and his mom’s food was the best part of the marriage!

By: Batya

Batya — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:33:59 +0000

Sounds lovely.
We’re in the Ashkenaz shul in Shiloh, which is in our backyard and there are Yeminites and Morocans etc, too. We don’t do weekly kiddush, just every month. The Chassidishe shul does a big one every week.

By: Leora

Leora — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:11:59 +0000

Lion of Zion,

Etz Ahaim used to be in New Brunswick, but it moved to HP in the 1960′s. Before New Brunswick, it was in Salonika. Ahavas Achim moved from New Brunswick later (Debbie, can you give dates? AA has no history on their website!). Ohev Emeth or OE (it’s those HP acronyms) moved from New Brunswick to HP in 1973. Ohr Torah (OT) and the Agudah are relative new comers. The Highland Park Conservative Temple also doesn’t have history on their website! I’m guessing it was founded here in HP, earliest Jewish presence? Need to do some research.

And the acronym you used was harder to look up than esnoga:
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