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NOTES &NEW5 A Match Made in MOMENT "I felt like I'd written a letter to God and someone answered it " So says the "modern Orthodox female" who, after many years of searching, met the...

...A MOMENT subscriber "from the start," she decided to try MOMENT...
...I really encourage singles to try every way to meet, including classified ads, even though the odds seem against it and you may get some responses from very strange people," the bride advises...
...The architecture of Beth Joseph combines traditional features, such as a women's balcony and a central bimah, with classic engaged columns and pediments on the exterior, and narrow wood slat walls, typical of Adirondack summer houses and lumber camps, on the interior...
...Also a longtime MOMENT subscriber, the groom maintains he had never responded to a personal ad—or even looked at one before...
...Adirondack Synagogue Is Now Historic Landmark The oldest synagogue in New York State's Adirondack mountain region is returning to life in Tupper Lake, New York, despite the virtual disappearance of the Jewish community there...
...But there is an urgent need to rebuild the water-damaged foundation...
...The founding congregation of the 1880s, Anshey Beth Joseph, is long gone but the synagogue will welcome a new generation for prayer and for a glimpse into the unique Jewish immigrant experience that came together in the Adirondacks northwoods...
...Although the synagogue doors have been closed since the late 1950s, the visible parts of the building are well preserved...
...Two Jewish longtime residents of Tupper Lake are working to raise funds for the needed restoration so that Beth Joseph can open to worshippers and visitors this summer...
...In announcing the change, MOMENT'S Executive Director Susan Laden stated that this change in publishing schedule allows us to reduce our renewal subscription price, which will make us substantially more attractive to a much wider Jewish audience "And that is our principal aim, to reach out to as many Jews as possible, particularly those who are not already heavily involved in their Jewish lives," she said...
...The basement of the synagogue will eventually house a Tupper Lake historical society and a museum of the local community Donations can be sent to Friends of Beth Joseph Synagogue, Inc., 359 Park St, Tupper Lake, NY 12986...
...It "resonated for him...
...She received five or six replies to her April 1988 MOMENT ad, some of which were just as disappointing as the replies to her ads elsewhere But she also received one "beautiful letter—very revealing and personal" from a man who felt that her ad was describing him...
...I started placing ads because I learned that a friend of mine met her husband through a personal ad," explains the bride She placed ads in two local Jewish newspapers, but found the responses "abysmal," sometimes even "frightening...
...The righteous shall enter it" (Psalm 118.20...
...I was looking not just for Jewish observance, but for an intellectual keenness and social awareness that I assume to be part of MOMENT'S readership...
...Holocaust memorials in Germany, Poland, Israel and the United States may reveal more about the country that builds them than about the Holocaust . . . and much, much more...
...MOMENT will also continue to improve its first-class color reproductions throughout the magazine...
...Given MOMENT'S readership, I knew I would be reaching the kind of people I was looking for...
...Inside they will find a restored parochet (ark cover) and Torah covers, newly scraped and polished wood floors, walls and benches, and the Torah scrolls themselves, back in place and ready for public readings...
...Many of the planned new issues will be larger and will contain even more in-depth reports on current issues facing the Jewish community...
...A MOMENT AWAY Here's what to look forward to . . . What Do Holocaust Memorials Tel Us...
...After three days' deliberation, he decided to follow his intuition, and he wrote his response They decided to meet for coffee, and by the fourth date they knew it was meant to be...
...On that day, people will pass beneath the original Hebrew inscription above the entrance' "This is the gate of the Lord...
...They are our future and the focus of our special concern," Laden added...
...NOTES &NEW5 A Match Made in MOMENT "I felt like I'd written a letter to God and someone answered it " So says the "modern Orthodox female" who, after many years of searching, met the "affectionate, thinking mensch" of her dreams through a personal ad in MOMENT...
...We keep blessing MOMENT1" MOMENT Goes Bimonthly Beginning with the June issue, MOMENT will go bimonthly...
...The Beth Joseph synagogue was added to the national and New York State registers of historic buildings this year, thanks to an effort spearheaded by a young, non-Jewish summer resident, Sharon Berzok Tragically, Berzok was killed in an automobile accident in California only days before the hearing that made the small wooden building a historic landmark Constructed in 1906 by a group of strange bedfellows—"Our Crowd" German-Jewish financiers from New York City who summered on the lakes, Eastern European Jewish peddlers who owned small shops serving the thriving lumber camps, and a few local Chnstians—the Beth Joseph synagogue land and building cost 53,500, excluding the cost of pews...
...He was examining a classified ad for table pads when her personal ad caught his eye...
...No one recalls exactly how much of this amount was contributed by financial giants Felix Warburg, Adolph Lewisohn, Jacob Schiff and Isaac Selig-man, all of whom traveled to the north country with their entourages in private railroad cars and exquisite wooden launches...
...Something hit a chord somewhere," his bride explamed...
...We can also make a much more attractive package for school-year subscriptions to college students...
...Laden noted that in the past 20 months, MOMENT'S circulation has skyrocketed from 18,000 to over 40,000—the highest ever in its 14-year history...

Vol. 14 • April 1989 • No. 3


 
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