rec.arts.theatre.musicals

On Oct 3, 12:47?am, NewportsRe...@ (Steve Newport) wrote:

> I can't wait for the regular LAW AND ORDER to return.

They overdid the spinoffs a tad, eh?ehee My favorite pairing was with
half-sweet Orbach and Chris Noth! -D, NYC "In New York City, Jews took
jobs that had never before been associated with Jewry. Police
Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt encouraged "fighting Jews" in the
1890s to join his department - and, eventually, the city had hundreds
of Jewish police officers. To this day, Jewish cops have their own
fraternal organization, the Shomrim Society, and New York's
firefighters the Ner Tamid, the Brotherhood of Jewish Firefighters" -
GOTTA EARN A DOLLAR: HOW THEY MADE A LIVING, excerpt from Jewish NY:
Notable Neighborhoods & Memorable Moments By Ira Wolfman.."Imagine,
then, that until 1825, the only synagogue in all of New York City was
Shearith Israel, the "Spanish and Portuguese congregation" that began
in 1654 with those twenty-three refugees from South America. Though
Director-General Stuyvesant begrudgingly allowed them to stay, he
forbade the Jews to pray in public, insisting that they congregate in
private home for religious worship and ceremonies. However, the
English conquered New Amsterdam (aka NY) soon afterwards, and New York
map of 1695, already included a notation for a "Jews Synagogue." -
SYNAGOGUES & CELEBRATIONS: The Place Of Prayer in New York, IBID