roshhashanah

If you have any information regarding the individuals within the picture, please post a comment or note.

Thanks for posting this wonderful shot.

So sad, to be force to conduct services in such a place.

The synagogue was on Patiky Street which was built in 1900. Early Jewish families on the street included the last names of Patiky, Goldberg, and Wisnarski. Kings Park Heritage Museum has more info. kpheritagemuseum.net/

Susan Meyers Field asked to post the following: "My Great Great Grandfather Gershon (George) Patiky founded one of the earliest synagogues in LI - Kings Park Jewish Center in 1908. By a congregation called Jewish Brotherhood of Kings Park on Patiky St. In 1962, the synagogue was destroyed by fire. The new building was built in 1967. In this Photo could be the following members of my family: Gershon Patiky, Jacob Okst (my Great Grandfather), Irving Meyers (my grandfather) uncles surnames: Patiky, Okst, Sincoff, Johnson, Clark, Glass, Meyers, Schwartz & Raskin."

Lovely

Why would he be holding a rooster with what appears to be the face of Czar Nicholas II? Does it mean something to have one's face on a rooster?

I'm guessing it is possibly a reference to the kapparot ceremony, which would take place between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/kapparot.html

It means that the (((devil's chosen))) performed a sacrificial ritual on the Tsar and his family.