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BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARKOWITZ HONORS NEW SOL AND LILLIAN
GOLDMAN EDUCATIONAL CENTER AT KANE STREET SYNAGOGUE

Photographs by Kathryn Kirk

In photo from left to right: KSS Renewal Committee Chairman Howard Schneider, KSS Rabbi Samuel H. Weintraub, Borough President Marty Markowitz, and KSS President Donald Olenick.

On Sunday, October 24, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined Rabbi Samuel H. Weintraub of the Kane Street Synagogue (KSS), KSS Renewal Committee Chairman Howard Schneider, KSS President Donald Olenick and others at the dedication ceremony of the new Sol and Lillian Goldman Educational Center at the Kane Street Synagogue.

“At the groundbreaking for the new facility, I said the Goldman Center was going to be the next 92nd Street Y. But I was wrong!” said Borough President Markowitz. “You created something better! We know how to do things uniquely Brooklyn: with moxie, pizzazz and chutzpah.”

Founded in 1856, the historic Kane Street Synagogue is Brooklyn’s oldest synagogue. The current renovations to the facility were done over a period of two years. While renovations were in progress, artifacts were discovered that chronicle the early life of the congregation and its original members. These historic treasures were on exhibit at the reception in the Goldman Educational Center following the dedication ceremony.