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After receiving his permission to record him, we began the interview. .
             We started our interview by asking why Judaism is so important to him that he chose to spend his life being a Rabbi. He told us that Judaism was always important to his family. They attended Friday night services regularly at a local synagogue, and sang the hymns lots of times, and not only at home. "By age 9 or 10, I memorized the Friday service by heart, and then sang in the very small synagogue choir. Also, by being a member to a very small synagogue meant that every member was known and valued, and you had to join in" said Rabbi Krupnik. He also mentioned that Judaism remained the central to my life until this day. The second question we asked was how many visitors this synagogue has weekly. He thought about it for a second, and then said that it was around 150-200 people coming for weekly services. We were surprised by his reply, because we ourselves did not see too many Jewish people in this community. He explained that was due to the fact that the prayer didn't start yet, and it continues through the evening, and onto Saturday morning. We asked him if this neighborhood is a Jewish one, to which he replied that in fact it wasn't a major Jewish area, but the people come to pray from all around Brooklyn, and even some parts of Queens. He told us that the area around the religious community center is equally shared with Christian Italians and Jews, it being so much equally shared, that basically these people live door to door with each other. Another curiosity we had was toward what kind of people come for the services. We asked him if some or any of the members are recent immigrants, and if they are still in touch with their religious communities in their homeland. To this question, the Rabbi raised his hands in to the air and laughed. He exclaimed, "of course there are many immigrants coming here". He told us that majority of the immigrants visiting the synagogue were primarily Russian Jews, but there were a lot of native Jewish Orthodox people as well.


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