Park East Synagogue
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The Park East Synagogue is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue originally called Congregation Zichron Ephraim at 163 East 67th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, Uni
Park East Synagogue in 2021
Domes were present in 1893
Robert Briscoe (politician)
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Robert Emmet Briscoe was an Orthodox Jewish veteran of the IRA during the Irish War of Independence and a Fianna Fáil politician of Lithuanian descent. He served as a Teachta Dála in the Oireachtas fr
Park East Synagogue
…of his sermons were reported on in the New York Times. He and his wife Edith, a noted educator, founded the Park East Day School. On March 16, 1957, Robert Briscoe, the Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin, carrying his tallis bag, visited and prayed at the synagogue on Shabbos morning. Since 1962, the synagogue's rabbi…
Robert Briscoe
President John F. Kennedy meets in the Oval Office with Lord Mayor of Dublin Robert Briscoe (1962)