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Chaim Albert Shul

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Jewish members of Chaim Albert Shul a/k/a Kingsbrook Shul Locked out of Synagogue building and forced to pray on the cold winter sidewalk. - Chanukah 5785 / 2024 (12/30/24)

 Kingsbrook Shul 

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7th Day of Chanukah 5785 / 2024 - Photos & Videos

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Click above image for VIDEO - Jews pray on the sidewalk during winter, while their synagogue located inside Kingsbrook sits empty with lights on.   ( 7th Day of Chanukah 5785 / 2024)

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Click image above for Video - Walking to 24 hr  Entrance of Hospital - Chanukah 5785 / 2024

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Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center  was founded by Jews  in resposne to the reports of anti-semitism at Kings County Hospital  perpetrated against special needs Jews.     

The historical newspaper records that follow show that a PUBLIC SYNAGOGUE, Jewish religious practices and a kosher kitchen  were all examples of the original donative intent of the Jews who bought the lots in 1927.

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The hospital was founded and built by and for Jews, to escape the anti-semitism of Kings County Hospital, with kosher food and a religious atmosphere.  "Generous support will enable the Jewish institution to serve Jewish incurables, alleviating to a greater degree their suffering and hardships with kosher food and a religious and racial atmosphere likely to make them feel more at ease."  ( The Chat, p.5, July 2, 1927)

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"But when your brother's Temple is in ruins,  and you've done everything you can do, and you can't help any more, then you can cry." Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, OBM
(See 2 min 21 sec), 10 Teves in 1964/5725

The shul is also special since it is a "FREE Shul" that has no membership fees and is therefore a vital community facility open to the public.  The shul also functions as the hospital's chapel.  

The shul has been "constructively evicted" (denied access) by One Brooklyn Health ("OBH") breaking ninety six years (since 1928) of Jewish worship and prayer inside the hospital.

The northern half of Kingsbrook Jewish Medical center was recently sold on December 13, 2023 to Monadnock Development as part of NYS Homes and Community Renewal's ("NYS HCR") Vital Brooklyn "Kingsbrook Estates".  The development involved taking away the Rutland entrance to the shul, while promising alternative synagogue access.  Kingsbrook Shul members relied upon the NYS HCR  representation on January 2, 2019 that "access to the synagogue will be preserved throughout and after the development is complete."  

The NYC COVID 19 Public Health Emergency ("PHE") was the reason KJMC originally temporarily suspended access to the shul. 

Members of the Kingsbrook Shul are still being denied access, even though the COVID emergency orders have expired, and even though NYS HCR and the developer represented that the Shul would remain open during Vital Brooklyn construction.

 NYC's COVID 19 public health emergency orders expired on June 20, 2023

The Jews who founded Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center about a century ago would be turning over in their graves if they found out that a few months after the hospital sold off  it's northern buildings and the shul's main ( Rutland Rd) entrance for $27 million, the hospital would go back on its word for continued access (through Winthrop St) and instead turn the shul into a storage room for garbage pails.

On April 12, 2018, the Board of Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center ("KJMC") was replaced by the Board of the "System" or the future board of One Brooklyn Health ("OBH").  On Jan 1, 2021, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Corp was merged out of existence and joined  Brookdale Hospital and Interfaith Hospitals to be part of  "One Brooklyn Health".  Legally KJMC and Interfaith merged into Brookdale Hospital. 

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KJMC Merger into OBH History

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