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Beth Israel (other)
Beth Israel or Bet Israel ( "House of Israel") may refer to: Synagogues Canada (by province) * Beth Israel Synagogue (Edmonton) * Congregation Beth Israel (Vancouver) * Beth Israel Synagogue (Halifax, Nova Scotia) * Beth Israel Congregation (Kingston, Ontario) * Beth Israel Anshei Minsk (Toronto, Ontario) * Congregation House of Israel (Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec) * Congregation Beth Israel Ohev Sholem, Quebec City, Quebec * Beth Israel Synagogue (Edenbridge, Saskatchewan) United States (by state then city) * Congregation Beth Israel (Gadsden, Alabama) * Temple Beth Israel (Phoenix), Arizona, listed on the National Register of Historic Places * Congregation Beth Israel (Scottsdale, Arizona) * Congregation Beth Israel (Berkeley, California) * Temple Beth Israel (Fresno, California) * Temple Beth Israel of Highland Park and Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California * Congregation Beth Israel (San Diego) * Congregation Beth Israel-Judea, San Francisco, California * T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Israel Synagogue (Edmonton)
Beth Israel Synagogue () is a Modern Orthodox Judaism, Modern Orthodox synagogue located at 131 Wolf Willow Road NW in the Oleskiw, Edmonton, Oleskiw neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1906 as the Edmonton Hebrew Association, it is the city's Oldest synagogues in Canada, oldest synagogue. Beth Israel's (and Edmonton's) first rabbi was Hyman Goldstick, recruited from Toronto in 1906; he was later elected mayor of Edson, Alberta. The congregation's Hebrew school, founded in 1907, would share space with the congregation until 1925, and later became Canada's first Jewish day school. Since its establishment, the congregation has occupied three different buildings; in 1912 it moved into its first building on 95th Street. It moved into its second building, on 113th Street, in 1952, and moved into its current location in 2000. Long-serving rabbis include A. Pinsky (1912–1933) and Abraham Postone (1941–1955). and Rabbi Daniel Friedman 2002–2018, and Rabbi Zolly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Israel Synagogue (New Haven, Connecticut)
Congregation Beth Israel, also known as the Orchard Street Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 232 Orchard Street in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States. The synagogue building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. History The congregation was founded in 1913 by an Orthodox congregation that was formed by Jewish families who had prospered sufficiently to move beyond the neighborhood of first immigrant settlement around Oak and Lafayette Streets to the area of upper Oak Street (renamed Legion Avenue in 1928) and Winthrop Avenue. First meeting in leased space, in 1915 the congregation moved into a remodeled house at 147 Orchard Street. In 1923 they purchased a lot at 232 Orchard Street for $12,000 (today $) and built the present Colonial revival style building in 1925. The architect was Louis Abramowitz and the builder was C. Abbadessa. By the late twentieth century, the membership was elderly, the Jewish population of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Congregation Beth Israel () is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue and congregation located at 15 Jamesbury Drive in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States. Founded in 1924 as an Orthodox synagogue, the congregation formally affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in 1949, and describes itself as the "leading Conservative congregation in Central Massachusetts." The congregation first worshipped at a house on Pleasant Street; it constructed a synagogue building in its place in 1939. It completed its current location on Jamesbury Drive in 1959. The congregation hired its first permanent rabbi, Israel Chodos, in 1940. Subsequent rabbis have included Emanuel Green (1942-1944), Sidney Guthman (1944-1948), Herbert Ribner (1948–1955), Abraham Kazis (1955–1973), Baruch Goldstein (1971–1986), and Jay Rosenbaum (1983–2003). In 1994, the synagogue and Rosenbaum were the subject of the book ''And They Shall be My People: An American Rabbi and His Congr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel (Onset, Massachusetts)
Congregation Beth Israel (), sometimes called Cape Cod Shul and officially Congregation Beth Israel of Onset Cape Cod, is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 7 Locust Street, Onset, Massachusetts, Onset, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the United States. Historically, it is well known as the summer synagogue of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and some of his students from the 1950s until the mid-1960s, when his wife died. The Clapboard (architecture), clapboard building was originally a furniture store, before it was converted to a synagogue in 1948. Initially a destination for Jewish vacationers from Boston, Beth Israel now attracts Jews from Toronto, Montreal, and New York City from a "wide cross-section of Orthodoxy", including "National Council of Young Israel, Young Israel, Chabad, Hasidic Judaism, Chasidim from Montreal, Haredi Judaism, Charedim, Shlomo Carlebach (musician), Carlebach Chasidim, very-left wing (Edah) and 'Conservadox'." T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel (North Adams, Massachusetts)
Congregation Beth Israel () is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 53 Lois Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, in the United States. The congregation was founded in the early 1890s as House of Israel by Eastern European Jews recently immigrated to the United States. The Chevre Chai Odom congregation broke away from House of Israel in 1905, but re-united with it in 1958, and the congregation adopted its current name in 1961. Originally Orthodox, it became Conservative in 1969 and Reform in 2000. The congregation has had five synagogue buildings since its founding, and moved to its present location in 2003. Beth Israel's first rabbis were Irving Miller (1925) and Moses Mescheloff (1936–1937). Rabbis in the 1950s and 1960s included Abraham Halbfinger and Earl Fishhaut. Jeffrey Wolfson Goldwasser joined the congregation as rabbi in 2000. Rachel Barenblat succeeded him in 2011. Early years Beth Israel was founded as the House of Israel in North Adams, Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel (Malden, Massachusetts)
Congregation Beth Israel (, officially Beth Israel Anshe Litte – "House of Israel, people of Lithuania"The beginning , Congregation Beth Israel website, About Us, History of the Congregation. Accessed August 29, 2009.), is an Orthodox located at 10 Dexter Street in Malden, |
Beth Israel Synagogue (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Beth Israel Synagogue is a historic former Jewish synagogue building at 238 Columbia Street in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States. Built in 1903, it was the first and principal synagogue to serve the East Cambridge area, and is a fine local example of Romanesque Revival architecture. Now converted into residential condominiums, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Description The former Beth Israel Synagogue stands in The Port neighborhood of eastern Cambridge, on the east side of Columbia Street, between Hampshire and Market Streets. It is a two-story brick building with a gabled roof and flanking square towers. Its Romanesque Revival styling includes bands of narrow round-arch windows and a large Syrian arch sheltering the main entrance. Brick corbelling adorns the eaves of the pyramidal tower roofs, and is featured in multiple bands at the base of the front gable. The building was designed by Nathan Douglass and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Israel Congregation (Salisbury, Maryland)
Beth Israel Congregation () is a Conservative Judaism, Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 600 Camden Avenue, in Salisbury, Maryland, Salisbury, Maryland, in the United States. History Founded in 1925,Wicomico County MD Council Minutes , June 20, 2006. it was organized by I.L. Benjamin upon the death of his father, and originally called Kahelas Israel Congregation. At the time there were only nine Jewish families in Salisbury.Glushakow, Abraham Dave. ''A Pictorial History of Maryland Jewry'', Jewish Voice Publishing Company, 1955, p. 48. Beth Israel moved to its current building in 1951. In 2006 the congregation was recognized by both the Wicomico County and Salisbury councils for eighty years of providing services and programs to " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel (Bangor, Maine)
Congregation Beth Israel () is a Conservative Judaism, Conservative synagogue, located for most of its history at 144 York Street in Bangor, Maine, Bangor, Maine, in the United States. The oldest continuously operating synagogue in Maine, it was organized in 1888 after an influx to Maine of Lithuanian and Polish Jews. There was a previous community of German Jews from the 1850s named Congregation Ahawas Achim (founded in 1849), who gradually assimilated or left Maine, leaving behind the Webster Street cemetery plot now maintained by the Bangor Jewish community. The synagogue has an active Sisterhood, leads a community-wide Chevra Kadisha, and has an active Hebrew school. Congregation Beth Israel has taken on Torah scrolls and memorial boards for Temple Israel in Old Town, Maine, Congregation Chiam Yosef in Calais, Maine, and the Aroostook Hebrew Community synagogue in Presque Isle, Maine. Early history The first of Beth Israel's founders, Ezriel Lemke Allen, arrived in Bangor i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel (New Orleans)
Congregation Beth Israel () is a Modern Orthodox synagogue located at 4004 West Esplanade Avenue, Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Founded in 1903 or 1904, though tracing its roots back to 1857, it is the oldest Orthodox congregation in the New Orleans region. Originally located on Carondelet Street in New Orleans' Central City, it constructed and moved to a building at 7000 Canal Boulevard in Lakeview, New Orleans, in 1971. At one time the largest Orthodox congregation in the Southern United States, its membership was over 500 families in the 1960s, but fell to under 200 by 2005. That year, its Canal Boulevard building was severely flooded by the 2005 New Orleans levee failure disaster during Hurricane Katrina. Despite attempts to save them, all seven of its Torah scrolls were destroyed, as were over 3,000 prayer books. The building suffered further flooding damage caused by the theft of copper air-conditioning tubing in 2007. In the wak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel Abraham Voliner
Congregation Beth Israel Abraham Voliner, abbreviated as BIAV, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located 9900 Antioch Road, in Overland Park, in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area of Kansas, in the United States. Formally established as ''Tefereth Israel'' in Kansas City, Missouri in 1894, by 1960 it had moved several times, and merged with three other congregations, taking on its current name. Responding to demographic shifts in Kansas City's Orthodox community, it opened a branch in Overland Park in 1987, and in 1994 it moved to its current location at 9900 Antioch Road. Morey Schwartz was the congregation's rabbi from 1991 to 2000, Ari Perl served from 2000 through 2003, and David S. Fine served from 2003 through 2008. Beth Israel Abraham Voliner was the only Orthodox synagogue in Kansas City. it was the only Orthodox synagogue in the State of Kansas, and the rabbi was Daniel Rockoff. Rabbi Mark Glass has served as senior rabbi since August 2020. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahavath Beth Israel (Boise, Idaho)
Ahavath Beth Israel, officially Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "Love of the House of Israel"), is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 11 North Latah Street, in Boise, Idaho, in the United States. Its 1896 building is amongst the oldest synagogues in continuous use west of the Mississippi River. The congregation is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism. History Boise's first Jews were present in the mining camps in the 1860s, but it was not until 1895 that Congregation Beth Israel (Hebrew for "House of Israel") was formed. Most of the congregants were from Germany and Central Europe and the synagogue followed the Reform tradition. Moses Alexander, mayor of Boise and governor of Idaho, was an early leader of the congregation. The building was erected in 1896, and given a careful restoration in 1982. Congregation Ahavath Israel (Hebrew for "Love of Israel") was founded in 1912 by Orthodox immigrants from Eastern Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
