Big Apple Bound

Temple Emanu-El's interim rabbi is taking a group of
students to sample New York's Yiddishkeit.

JULIE WIENER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

F

or four jam-packed days, 20
Temple Emanu-El students
will sample the excitement
of the city that calls itself
the "Capital of the World."
With its metropolitan area
home to almost one-third of the
American Jewish population,
New York is also the capital of
Diaspora Jewry, and that will be
Rabbi Bradley Bleefeld's focus
as he introduces the temple's
confirmation class and a few
adult chaperones to the city that
never sleeps.
"Everything we do, from the
time we step off the plane to the
time we get back on the plane,
will be Jewish," Rabbi Bleefeld
said. The March 6-9 trip in-
cludes such Jewish sites as El-
lis Island, a culinary walking
tour of the Lower East Side (re-
plete with kosher pickles, knish-
es, bagels and other fare), a visit
to one of the oldest synagogues
in the country and Kabbalat
Shabbat services at Manhattan's
Temple Emanu-El.

"New York is the most inten-
sive and most varied Jewish ex-
perience around, exceeded only
by a trip to Israel," Rabbi
Bleefeld explained. "It offers the
full gamut of Jewish options."
He hopes the trip will encourage
his students to identify as part
of a worldwide community of
Jews, with all the benefits and
responsibilities.
This is the first year Temple
Emanu-El's students will ex-
plore the Big Apple, but Rabbi
Bleefeld, the temple's interim
rabbi, has been taking confir-
mation classes to New York for
17 years. A native New Yorker
who has lived in both Manhat-
tan and the Bronx, he has de-
veloped an extensive curriculum
around the trip.
All three major waves of Jew-
ish immigration to the U.S. —
Sephardic, German and Eastern
European — entered the coun-
try through New York, and as
a result almost every element
of New York life is influenced

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if you weren't with your rabbi,"
and is also curious to see how
other synagogues do their ser-
vices.
"We hope for students to gain
a greater Jewish identity and to
realize that anything they
choose to do with their life can
have a Jewish connection," Rab-
bi Bleefeld said. ❑

York Stock Exchange,
by Jewish culture. In addi-
Rabbi
NBC studios and even a
tion to their varied contri-
Bradley
Broadway show.
butions in the spheres of Bleefeld:
The trip will be Danielle
religious study, education, Bound for the
food and entertainment, Big Apple. Gable's first to New York.
After learning about the
Jews have left their mark
on the retail industry and the city in confirmation class,
the Berkley High School sopho-
arts.
Rabbi Bleefeld will take the more is excited to "see parts of
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