http://www.joelnothman.com/2006/09/01/nyc-again/ Hobbily blogging Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:17:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.joelnothman.com/2006/09/01/nyc-again/comment-page-1/#comment-84 JoelNothman.com » “Sabbath observer” — a musical weekend Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:10:12 +0000 http://joelnothman.com/2006/09/01/nyc-again/#comment-84 [...] I was very impressed by the view as I woke up. Yogi doesn’t understand why, and supoosedly the look of the urban slums of Harlem stretching out from behind the trees of Morningside Park doesn’t appeal to him. At least it was a nice sunny day, and yet this also meant we’d woken up a bit late. We attended the Ramat Orah synagogue, which Simi had actually shown me on our tour of Columbia and its surrounds. It was the first synagogue that I’d attended with both a mechitza (a gender-separation barrier that is a usual sign of orthodoxy) and a pipe-organ. They didn’t use the organ (a pity, maybe), and most suggested it was a relic of former incarnations of the building. I didn’t particularly like the accoustics there, either, but otherwise it had a very friendly, knowledgeable and charismatic rabbi, and was generally a pleasant place to be. [...] [...] I was very impressed by the view as I woke up. Yogi doesn’t understand why, and supoosedly the look of the urban slums of Harlem stretching out from behind the trees of Morningside Park doesn’t appeal to him. At least it was a nice sunny day, and yet this also meant we’d woken up a bit late. We attended the Ramat Orah synagogue, which Simi had actually shown me on our tour of Columbia and its surrounds. It was the first synagogue that I’d attended with both a mechitza (a gender-separation barrier that is a usual sign of orthodoxy) and a pipe-organ. They didn’t use the organ (a pity, maybe), and most suggested it was a relic of former incarnations of the building. I didn’t particularly like the accoustics there, either, but otherwise it had a very friendly, knowledgeable and charismatic rabbi, and was generally a pleasant place to be. [...]

]]> http://www.joelnothman.com/2006/09/01/nyc-again/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Alicia Fri, 01 Sep 2006 03:23:13 +0000 http://joelnothman.com/2006/09/01/nyc-again/#comment-62 Hehe. At least you weren't pushing to be there before the end of check out time as I was with quite a few of my flights! Hehe. At least you weren’t pushing to be there before the end of check out time as I was with quite a few of my flights!

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