Hebrew Institute of Riverdale (The Bayit)

3700 Henry Hudson Parkway East | also 3690 Netherland Avenue | Spuyten Duyvil | built 1981

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1980
The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale builds a permanent synagogue after years in a rented boiler room
Organized in 1924 under the name Hebrew Institute of University Heights, the congregation moved to Riverdale in 1971 as the Bronx's population shifted. It first rented a boiler room in the Whitehall apartment building off the Henry Hudson Parkway, then put up its own permanent building in 1980.
“The congregation met at the Whitehall apartment building in the early years, before constructing a permanent building in 1980.”
Source: Wikipedia
2015
Rabbi Avi Weiss hands the pulpit to Steven Exler after 42 years
Avi Weiss, who had trained at Yeshiva University, became the congregation's rabbi in 1973 and led it until 2015. The synagogue became known for activism for Soviet Jewry and Israel and for opening prayer and Torah study to women; one Friday night a woman led the service before a mixed congregation. Weiss then became Rabbi in Residence, and Steven Exler took over as senior rabbi.
Source: Wikipedia

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