Hebrew Institute of Riverdale
The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale was founded in 1971 in a boiler room of the Whitehall Building off the Henry Hudson Parkway by former members of the Hebrew Institute of University Heights in the Bronx who had moved to Riverdale. Weiss who had finished his training at Yeshiva University a few years earlier became the synagogue's rabbi in 1973. The congregation has grown to 850 families, and has served as a platform for Weiss’s rabbinical advocacy.
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