Jewish-American heritage on Long Island through the years

In 1962, Rabbi Theodore Jungreis and his wife, Esther Jungreis, hand fruit to Lee Noroden to hang from a sukkah at the Sunrise Jewish Center in Valley Stream, which is now called the Valley Stream Jewish Center.

A youth group from the Temple Israel of Great Neck build their own sukkah under the supervision of Rabbi Seymor E. Freedman on Sept. 25, 1966.

Rabbi Theodore Jungreis of the Bethpage Jewish Center reads the Megillah while passengers use noisemakers during a Purim celebration on the 8:02 Long Island Rail Road train from Bethpage to Manhattan in 1962.

Rabbi Gilbert S. Rosenthal of the Oceanside Jewish Center removes Torah scrolls from the Ark on Sept. 18, 1969. The Ark was built as a replica of the Western Wall.

A crowd at the Midway Jewish Centre in Syosset gathers at an emergency meeting to raise money for Israel Bonds on June 5, 1967.

Rabbi Keneth D. Poplack of Bethpage Jewish Community Center prepares five torah scrolls damaged in a fire for burial in 1970.

Rabbi Joel Dobin blows the shofar to signal the end of Yom Kippur at Temple Sinai in Bay Shore on Oct. 8, 1970.

Michael Wasserman is bar mitzvahed at the North Country Reform Temple in Glen Cove in 1970.

The Zornberg sisters from Garden City participate in Hadassah activities on March 21, 1972.

Joe Benzev and Fay Lloyd, two county heads of the Long Island Jewish Defense League, hold a meeting in Woodmere on March 26, 1972.

Blanche Shukow of Huntington, president of the Suffolk Region of Hadassah, talks with her mother, Goldie Warshay, also of Huntington, in March 1972.

Judith Epstein, past national president of Hadassah, addresses the Suffolk Region of Hadassah in Huntington on March 21, 1972.

Daniel Mechanic of West Hempstead is seen during a discussion at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County in Uniondale on May 14, 1973.

Rabbinical student Mendel Fogelman says prayers with Neal Trenk of North Woodmere, who had a Tefillin wrapped around his arm and head.

Rally participants gather in support for Jewish poor at the Cedarhurst Long Island Rail Road station on June 2, 1974.

Ronnie Ogus stands near a 4-foot-tall motorized dreidel at a shop in West Hempstead on Nov. 26, 1975.

Mildred Rubin reads from her textbook during a Hebrew class at Valley Stream Memorial Junior High School on March 22, 1976.

A prayer service was held on the 7:08 Long Island Rail Road train from Long Beach to Penn Station in this 1977 photo.

Workman Vinnie DiPalo adjusts a rope connected to a lamppost at the Long Beach boardwalk. Rabbi Lazar Kahanow created a program to place the ropes to serve as eruvs around the city in 1977.

Rabbi Tuvia Teldon and Yecheskel Ezra Moses turn a pickup truck into a Sukkah Mobile in Lake Grove on Oct. 4, 1979.

Rabbi Howard Wolk, center, leads a Bible study class in Patchogue in 1979.

Stan Hulkower of the Community Synagogue in Sands Point and his brother, Bill Hulkower of the Bethpage Jewish Community Center, are seen with the shofars they use at their respective synagogues in 1983.

In 1983, Richard Hippner of Nissequogue made a sukkah out of saplings he cut down on his own property. Seated are his wife, Judy, and daughter, Rachel.

Rabbi Anchelle Perl waves a white chicken over the heads of children at the Solomon Schechter School in Jericho to wash away sins for the new year as part of a Yom Kippur ceremony in 1984.

Gary Steinman, a young man of Vietnamese descent, is raised in a chair during his bar mitzvah celebration at the Central Synagogue in Rockville Centre on Feb. 16, 1985.

A gathering of cantors join together during an installation at Temple Hillel in Valley Stream on June 12, 1985.

Rabbi Slomon Koenig, a sofer or scribe, makes family inscriptions in the Torah during a dedication ceremony at the Brandeis School in Lawrence on Sept. 28, 1986.

Dr. Gordon Meyerhoff, president of the Roslyn Synagogue, stands in front of the synagogue, which was a former fire house, on Nov. 9, 1986.

Jack Abramowitz works at the King David Kosher Restaurant in Cedarhurst in 1986.

A kosher pizza restaurant in Cedarhurst is seen in this 1986 photo. The neighborhood had been experiencing an influx of Orthodox Jews.

Rabbi Anschel Peri rolls perforations into matzo dough as children watch in 1988.

Chef Paul Rabinowitz and counter manager Fred Silverstein of Ben's Deli in Greenvale display Passover dishes on March 22, 1990.

Rachel Hennessy, 4, reads her Seder book after services were held for pre-schoolers at the YM-YWHA of Suffolk in Commack in 1992.

On March 14, 1992, Dr. Samuel Colish and his wife, Daisy Colish, look at cards he received for celebrating his third bar mitzvah. He also received a birthday card from President George Bush that day, his 96th birthday.

Hanna Schwartz of Long Beach has her face painted by Brooke Bellask of Plainview at the Plainview YWHA Purim Festival on March 22, 1992.

Stuart and Phyllis Eisenberg make preparations for a Passover seder at their home in Ronkonkoma in 1994.

Hebrew Academy of Nassau County in Uniondale dedicated a new Torah, held by former student Mark Gross, on Oct. 23, 1994.

Faroque Khan of the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury and Sandie Antar of Temple Beth-El of Great Neck attend an interfaith seder on March 21, 1994.

Rabbi Jeffrey Warterberg, right, with Brian Wantuck and his mother, Aina, stand before a restored Torah that survived the Holocaust. They donated the Torah to the Sayville Jewish Community Center in 1994.

Rabbi Edward Gruenstein places cooking racks into steam-jacketed kettles where they are boiled as part of kashering, or preparing the kitchen for Passover, at the Jewish Center for Geriatric Care in New Hyde Park in 1994.

In this 1994 photo, Rabbi Joy Levitt drapes a tallit on Judith Eisenstein, who in 1922 was the first woman to be bat mitzvahed at the Reconstructionist Synagogue of the North Shore in Plandome.

Rabbi David Greenberg of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons retired at the age of 70 on June 11, 1994. All persons who were married, confirmed, bar or bat mitzvahed, named, or taught by him in the previous 50 years were invited to the service. To his left is Cantor Debra Stein-Davidson; his wife, Marilyn Greenberg, stands at right.