Actors' Temple - NY, NY
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N 40° 45.670 W 073° 59.349
18T E 585320 N 4512736
The Actors' Temple is located in the Theater District of Manhattan at 339 West 47th Street in New York, N.Y.
Waymark Code: WM16YJE
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2022
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The flag of the actor's temple is is inscribed in yellow against a red background:
ACTORS'
{STAR OF DAVID}
TEMPLE
The Actors’ Temple was founded in 1917 as the West Side Hebrew Relief Association to help Orthodox Jews who owned shops in the Hell's Kitchen district of Manhattan. The founders named the temple Ezrath Israel, "the One who assists Israel".
Since the temple is in the theater district of Manhattan and show business people were not readily accepted in society, Rabbi Bernard Birstein and Cantor, Louis Malamud made friends with Broadway actors such as Sophie Tucker and Red Buttons and provided them a place to be accepted and worship.
Over time many many other famous people came to the temple and it became known as the Actor's Temple. The Three Stooges, Shelley Winters, Milton Berle, Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Joe E. Lewis, Edward G. Robinson, Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg were frequent visitors to the Actors' Temple.
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