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This remarkable temple. which Is located on Fifth Avenue at East 65th Street in the heart of my district. has tended to the spiritual needs of its congregants as well as the social and philanthropic needs of the greater community for a century and a half. I want to first congratulate Dr. Ronald B. Sobel. who has served as the temples senior rabbi since 1973. Rabbi Soebl Is a worldrenowned scholar and spiritual leader who deserves enormous credit for helping to make EmanuEI into one of the largest and most respected synagogues In the world. In fact. Temple EmanuEI is physically the largest synagogue in the world and boasts the largest membership of any reform temple. But its origins were indeed quite humble. In 1845. a handful of German immigrants pooled $30