Reply To: Chazanus and the Bronx

Benph: Thanks for the additional details. I never knew R’ Rubin ran for Congress against Biaggi…a name from the past. I think that Congressional seat is now held by AOC. How times have changed. When I was last in the old pelham parkway neighborhood, the old YI building on Lydig avenue had been sold (probably many years earlier during the severe downturn in Jewish life in the Bronx) and the tzibur had merged with the old “Jewish Center” shul with the much nicer building on Pelham Parkway South. I’m told there actually has been a real renaissance in Jewish life in that area over the past several years.
As far as Mikvahs, somone at the program I attended recalled that there had been at least one functioning Mikvah for an extended period of time at the Mishkenos Yisroel shul on Southern Boulevard but that was in what your refer to as the EAST Bronx and not in the WESt Bronx. (There were also several rebbaim from the Salanter yeshiva over on Webster Avenue involved in that shul)