The White Shul (Congregation Kneseth Israel)

728 Empire Avenue | also 7-28 Empire Avenue | Far Rockaway | built 1967

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

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1964
Congregation Kneseth Israel moves to Empire Avenue and keeps its nickname, the White Shul
Founded in 1922, the Orthodox congregation had worshipped since 1930 in a white former Temple Israel building at Nameoke Street and Dinsmore Avenue, which earned it the name White Shul. In 1964 it moved into its current home at Empire Avenue and Sage Street but held on to the nickname. Its longest-serving rabbi, Raphael Pelcovitz, was the first to preach to the congregation in English rather than Yiddish.
Source: Wikipedia
2010
January
Rabbi Eytan Feiner signs on for two more years as rabbi of the White Shul
Eytan Feiner, who had taught at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem, returned from Israel with his wife Aviva to get medical care for their son. The congregation first brought him in as scholar-in-residence for Rosh Hashanah, then as interim rabbi, and in January 2010, after a first one-year contract, announced that he had agreed to stay for two more years.
Source: Wikipedia

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