I like this old photograph of Meyer Goodfriend, a kindly looking old gent with soft eyes, an old fashioned collar, and a nice tie. Along with portraits of past presidents of Ansche Chesed, the picture graces the back foyer behind the main sanctuary near the women’s room. Goodfriend was president of the synagogue between 1907 and 1927.  According to the 1918 Jewish Communal Register, he was born in 1860 in New York. Goodfriend graduated from City College of New York. An importer of pearls and precious stones, he lived at 274 118^th St, near 2nd Avenue. Involved in the building of the synagogue site at 114^th St and what is today Adam Clayton Powell Blvd, he’s quoted elsewhere as claiming that the lack of a synagogue in that part of Harlem was one reason for needing to establish the Jewish Procteroriate Association for delinquent Jewish youth. Now the kids could learn about the “elements of of their religion,” instead of…