.Traditionally when a group of Jews want to start a Synagogue, they get together, start a building fund , each prospective congregation members puts up x amount of money. either donated, a loan of some sorts , I am presuming that there is paper work somewhere along the line. there is an elected President , they interview and hire a Rabbi , either rent an apartment or buy a house for the Rabbi to reside in, when the loans are satisfied and the congregation moves away. traditionally the president of the Shul is supposed to take the money from the sale and put it toward s the next synagogue that he is involved with that opens up in the future, Is he the legal trustee and l allowed to 1. perform the transaction of the sale of the temples land and or building and if so what obligations does he have by law to follow out any plan at all? This is a major grey area of the law ,after all this is not a Church who owns and oversees the individual houses of Worship it’s strictly congregational.

My Grandfather told me such a story that when the members moved away from his Synagogue in Williamsburg Brooklyn and it was closed down Circa1956 he later ( my Grandfather) ran into the Shuls president in Canarsie Brooklyn and gave him Hell for pocketing the proceeds of the sale and doing with it as he wished. I live in  L.I. and the Israel Jewish center is up for sale and I wonder whats the story and whos in charge of overseeing the sale and perspective proceeds of the sale ..don’t you?

Circa 1950′s- to the the late 1960′s Jewish woman of that era in America, Basically New York had to have a mink stole .No self resepctingJewish Woman was without one………………

what were talking about is lower income Jewish woman whose husbands maybe broughthome $100 a week if they put in 10 hrs of overtime if they were lucky. Everything was sacaficed so that they can ware a mink stole , for example, maybe their children’s denatl work. a summer vacation, a better apartmenteverything had to go for a stole.the Jewish woman had to maybe ware it once a year to be seen and pretend ”wealthystatus”.and utter the words Who Ha,look at me who ha . that along with Mah Jong is a passing item in Jewish history, My own mother sacrificed getting braces for my buck teeth , it was more important for her to ware that stole once a year . maybe 3 times total in her life and utter at the top of her lungs Who Ha look at me .how sad , but every one of the lower income New York Jews ,Knows what I”m talking about.

My mother passed away a few years backnd I found her mink stole , I gave it to my niece (granddaughter) she wares it on Halloween.little does she know or comprehend that that stole is a part of American Jewish History.

My Old Flame-click open link new tab to hear Isreal has a real problem on its hands visa vie the Palestinian tunnels , they bring death and destruction to Israel and the Jewish people. What Israel should do is no less then th U.S. did in Viet-Nam … pump methane gas into the tunnels and light it,and thats the end of the tunnel problem forever, just like it was the end to the Viet Cong tunnels, How could the U.S. chastise them for  doing what they did themselves,  Not a pretty picture , but either are Jews being bombed in the .market place by suicide bombers end