Not Heimish [10 cents]

From "The Hampstead [England] Synagogue: 1892-1967" by its then rabbi, Raymond Apple:

"A recent guide to London, in a chapter on 'Jewish London', praises the quality of the sermons and the cantorial choral music at Hampstead as the best in any of the London synagogues, but suggests that Hampstead's decorum goes with a cold, unfriendly attitude. This kind of judgement is necessarily subjective....The dignity and decorum, so long proud boasts of the congregation, are maintained, but sartorially there has been a great change in the last thirty years. No longer are silk hats and frock coats de rigueur on Sabbaths, and dinner jackets or full evening dress on Kol Nidre night; nor are Bar Mitzvah boys attired in silk hats and Eaton suits....Hampstead is not what is colloquially called Heimish, but its members would strongly resent being called cold and unfriendly."