{"id":91811,"date":"2020-10-18T02:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-trumps-developer-dad-and-a-brooklyn-rabbi-saved-a-synagogue\/"},"modified":"2020-10-18T02:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T23:01:05","slug":"how-trumps-developer-dad-and-a-brooklyn-rabbi-saved-a-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-trumps-developer-dad-and-a-brooklyn-rabbi-saved-a-synagogue\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Trump’s developer dad and a Brooklyn rabbi saved a synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#How Trump’s developer dad and a Brooklyn rabbi saved a synagogue<\/strong>”
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\n When congregants enter the Beach Haven Jewish Center in Gravesend, Brooklyn, they pass a small plaque hanging just outside the main sanctuary.<\/p>\n

\u201cFred Trump. Humanitarian,\u201d declare the gold embossed, all-caps letters. \u201cLet this plaque be a token of our sincerest app<\/a>reciation, never to be forgotten, always to be a shining light to all men who have faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plaque, inscribed Dec. 15, 1956, is the most visible reminder of an unlikely and mostly unknown friendship between the Lutheran real estate developer \u2014 and father of President Trump \u2014 and this enclave of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say that the Beach Haven Jewish Center would not be what it is today, if not for Mr. Fred Trump,\u201d Rabbi Shimmy Silver told The Post. \u201cWe are grateful for his kindness and forever indebted to him for what he has done for our community,\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 1950s, Brooklyn\u2019s Jewish community was exploding as new arrivals \u2014 many of them Holocaust survivors \u2014 tried to begin new lives.<\/p>\n

This presented a dilemma for Rabbi Israel Wagner, whose congregation was starting to outgrow the garage of a building in Fred Trump\u2019s Beach Haven development complex where it had been previously meeting.<\/p>\n

So in 1955, he set out to meet the landlord.<\/p>\n

Wagner, a native of Poland, wasn\u2019t sure what to expect when he met Fred Trump. They had never spoken and the rabbi only knew the real estate magnate by his tough reputation.<\/p>\n

The two hit it off immedia<\/a>tely. Trump donated the land on Brooklyn\u2019s Avenue Z, to Wagner\u2019s congregation. A deed of sale from October 1955 shows the land officially transferring from Fred to the new Jewish center for $10. The elder Trump also financed much of the construction costs, as the new house of worship was born a year later.<\/p>\n

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Trump and Wagner\u2019s \u201cmutual love, respect, and friendship only deepened over the next 48 years,\u201d reads the synagogue website \u2014 where the story is prominently featured.<\/p>\n

Inside a small synagogue archive, contemporary records and photos tell more of the story.<\/p>\n

Trump never missed the synagogues\u2019s annual fundraiser dinner, which he attended throughout the 1970s and 80s \u2014 often cutting checks for $2,500 and $3,500.<\/p>\n

Pristinely preserved black and white photos show a beaming Trump standing alongside Wagner, the man he called \u201cmy rabbi.\u201d<\/p>\n

The temple continued good relations with the Trump family even after Fred Trump\u2019s death in 1999. When Wagner\u2019s widow turned 90 in Israel in the mid-2010s, Donald Trump sent birthday wishes, according to Rabbi Silver.<\/p>\n

Some older members still have memories of Fred Trump, and his sons Donald and Fred Jr., bouncing around the old family offices just down the street on Avenue Z.<\/p>\n

As for current politics, Rabbi Silver said he was pleased with new Israel security treaties secured by the president, but was otherwise mum, declining to opine about next month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a synagogue and Jewish community center. Our sole focus is strengthening the Jewish identity and observance of our community,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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