He attended services at the Old-New Synagogue, the oldest surviving Jewish house of worship in Europe.
Subsequently it supported the terrorists who planted more than 100 bombs across Chicago and New York, as well as the terrorist group that blew up the historic Fraunces Tavern, killing four and wounding 54, and the bomber of a New York synagogue.
Mr. Merkin is no longer the president of the elite Fifth Avenue Synagogue on New York's Upper East Side.
Geller was scheduled to speak on April 13 at the Great Neck Synagogue in Great Neck, New York.
Six weeks ago, the Temple Israel Synagogue in Long Beach, New York, was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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She returned from her synagogue in the Bronx, New York, one day in 1993 and told him about a congregation member named Howard Jonas.
The 90-year-old menorah used in the ceremony came from the Temple Israel synagogue in Long Beach, New York, which was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.
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And New York Police Department helicopters are expected to fly over the synagogue in honor of Koch.
On the night of May 20th four men, at least three of them American citizens, all living in Newburgh, a town 60 miles north of New York City, were arrested after planting bombs outside a synagogue and a Jewish centre in the Bronx.
The new chief rabbi faces numerous problems, including declining levels of observance and synagogue attendance, and a large proportion of young Jews marrying outside the community, our correspondent says.
"On the first night of Shavuot we usually go to synagogue and stay up all night studying Torah, " says Haddad, now a veteran ophthalmologist in New York.
This beautiful menorah has been generously loaned to us by Congregation Beth Israel in New Orleans. (Applause.) Five years ago, when Hurricane Katrina hit, the synagogue was covered in eight feet of water.
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