[Avodah] Stained Glass Windows

[torahmike at gmail.com]

>>This morning someone told me that he had heard  that RYBS once spoke
>>against installing stained glass windows in a synagogue, saying it
>>was Chukas Ha Goyim. He said he had heard that RYBS went so far as to
>>say that one should not go to a synagogue with stained glass windows
>>to hear shofar.

His father zt"l's minyan on 185th was in a stained glass shul(Unless
the stained glass was added later - but I daven there sometimes and
the architecture doesn't look like it was added later . See picture
and article:
http://www.yucommentator.com/2.2828/shenk-shul-looking-to-expand-in-response-to-growing-membership-1.297703
[or <http://bit.ly/cFOAuY> -micha]

 - Mike

[I thought I also remember stained glass windows at Moriah, on the
Upper West Side, a shul on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that was
under RYBS himself. Perhaps someone who was old enough to attend more
of RYBS's Tues night shiurim than I did could confirm or deny. -micha]