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January 28th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Rabbi Sidney Kleiman |
The longest serving New York City rabbi celebrated his 100th birthday this week, according to press reports in New York.
On Sunday, rabbi Sidney Kleiman of Congregation Adereth El turned 100, the latest milestone for the longest serving spiritual leader of the oldest synagogue in continuous operation in the city.
“God was good to me,” Kleiman said on his birthday, which he celebrated as any normal day: he was the first to reach the East 29th Street synagogue and the last to leave.
Kleiman led Adereth El from 1939 to 1999, during which the congregation members changed from large families to singles.
“This synagogue was built during the Civil War, and has been here ever since,” current rabbi Shloush
Gideon, said. “There were people still alive from the Civil War era when rabbi Kleiman took
over the leadership,” he said.
He grew up poor in the South Bronx, and when he could not afford the bus, he would walk to class at Yeshiva University in Manhattan selling stationery door to door along the way.
Eventually, he took over the leadership of Adereth El, which was founded in 1857 by German Jewish immigrants and moved to its current location in 1863. He remained in that position for 60 years, from the height of World War II until 1999.
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