'Frankfort on the Hudson' Walking Tour Set for 9/9

This comprehensive tour will focus on the distinctive history and contemporary Jewish community of Washington Heights.

Our tour will begin on the campus of Yeshiva University. The inauguration, in 1928, of an imposing Moorish Revival building on Amsterdam Avenue (architect Charles B. Meyers) finalized YU's relocation from the overcrowded, impoverished neighborhood of the Lower East Side to the then bucolic Washington Heights. We will tour this dynamic, urban campus and visit Zysman Hall and the Shottenstein Center (1921).

Making our way west, we will view the major facilities of K'hal Adath Jeshurun, (1939) the unique German tradition kehilla, (centralized religious community) on Bennett Avenue. We will discuss the legacy of Rabbi Sampson Raphael Hirsch who founded the original community that bore this name in Frankfort, 1851, and his grandson, Rabbi Dr. Joseph Breuer, who revived it on these shores.

Our next stop is Chabad of Washington Heights, the most recent addition to communal life in Wash. Hts, and then on to Bennett Park. Built on the site of Fort Washington, from which the Continental Army delayed the advance of British troups in 1776, the park was names for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., the publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835. Bennett Park is located at the highest natural point in Manhattan.

Tour concludes with viewing of Cong. Hebrew Tabernacle, founded in 1906.

Fee: $20 Adults, $18 Seniors, & $12 Students ($2 additional day of tour)
Fee includes traditional 'nosh' from local German bakery

For information/reservations, call:
(212) 374-4100 x1 or 2,
or register on our website @ www.nycjewishtours.org