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Jewish Center (other)
Jewish Center may refer to synagogues and their associated community centers in the following locations: United States California * Pacific Jewish Center, an Orthodox synagogue in Venice Ohio * Akron Jewish Center, a registered historic building in Akron New Jersey * Freehold Jewish Center, Freehold Jewish Center (Congregation Agudath Achim), a synagogue in Freehold * Marlboro Jewish Center, Marlboro Jewish Center (Congregation Ohev Shalom), a Conservative synagogue in Marlboro New York * Mosholu Jewish Center, a former synagogue in Norwood, the Bronx * Riverdale Jewish Center, an Orthodox synagogue in Riverdale, the Bronx * Jewish Center of Coney Island, a synagogue in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn * Beth El Jewish Center of Flatbush, a synagogue in Flatbush, Brooklyn * Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, a synagogue in Kensington, Brooklyn * Jewish Center of Kings Highway, Brooklyn * Manhattan Beach Jewish Center, an Orthodox synagogue in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn * East Midwood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Jewish Center
The Pacific Jewish Center, abbreviated as PJC and also known as the Shul on the Beach, is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 505 Ocean Front Walk, in Venice, Los Angeles, Venice, Los Angeles, California, in the United States. The synagogue is known for its outreach to unaffiliated and disconnected Jews. The Shul remains the last of the synagogues built in Venice during the first part of the 20th century. Although an Orthodox synagogue, worshippers who identify themselves as many different denominations are all welcomed when attending services and other events due to its location in an eclectic neighborhood. The 1925 building, originally a power station, was identified as a City of Los Angeles landmark. History Pacific Jewish Center was established as Bay Cities Synagogue in the 1940s. The congregation was one of several synagogues established in Venice Beach in the 1920s (two others also on the Venice boardwalk). All except this one, and Mishkon Tefilo, had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jericho Jewish Center
The Jericho Jewish Center is a Conservative congregation and synagogue located at 430 North Broadway, Jericho, New York, in the United States. The congregation was established in 1955, when it began meeting on a local private estate. Construction of the Jericho Jewish Center synagogue began in June 1959, and was completed in 1960.Poliakoff, Ira. ''Synagogues of Long Island'', Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing is an American Publishing, publisher of neighborhood, local history, local, and regional history of the United States in pictorial form.(analysis of the successful ''Images of America'' series). Arcadia Publishing also runs th ..., 2017. The Iken STEM Science Academy Preschool, housed in the Jericho Jewish Center, opened in 2016. In 2022 it was reported that the congregation's attempts to consolidate with a nearby Conservative congregation, the Woodbury Jewish Center, failed and that the future of the Jericho Jewish Center was uncertain. Rabbi Matthew Abelson sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutland Jewish Center
The Rutland Jewish Center is a non-denominational Jewish synagogue and religious community center located at 96 Grove Street in Rutland, Vermont, in the United States. The synagogue, owned by the Congregation Adath Israel, is located in the former H. H. Baxter Memorial Library building, a Richardsonian Romanesque structure that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Programs and services The Rutland Jewish Center (RJC) provides a variety of cultural and educational services to the Jewish community of the Rutland area. It offers both adult and children's classes, the latter including Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah training. Architecture and building history The RJC building is a cruciform structure, built out of grey marble quarried in West Rutland and laid in irregular courses. Prominent features include the arched entrance portico at the corner of Grove and Library Streets, and the multi-stage square tower that has an open top stage, each side featuring a pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Park Jewish Center
The Lincoln Park Jewish Center is a Modern Orthodox synagogue located in 311 Central Park Avenue in the Lincoln Park section of Yonkers, in Westchester County, New York, United States. The originally Ashkenazi congregation was founded in 1938. Elliott Palais, a former president of the Lincoln Park Jewish Center said that the synagogue building "was designed by Eli Rabineau, the same architect who designed the Grinton I. Will Library in Yonkers and Bet Torah in Mount Kisco." The Lincoln Park Jewish Center revitalized in the early 21st century by Rabbi Rigoberto Emanuel Viñas, a Cuban-American Jew. According to the ''New York Times'', Viñas attracted a large number of Hispanic Jews to the congregation, including Holocaust survivors who had settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Jews with roots in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Spain. He was particularly noted for performing "ceremonies of return" for ''anusim Anusim (, ; singular male, anús, ; singular female, anusá, , meaning " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rego Park Jewish Center
The Rego Park Jewish Center is a Conservative synagogue located in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City, New York, United States. Designed by the architectural firm of Frank Grad & Sons, the Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ... Streamline Moderne building was completed in 1948. The façade features a mosaic by Hungarian-born artist A. Raymond Katz. The building is listed on both the New York State and National Register of Historic Places. Gallery Image:Rego Park Jewish Center 01.JPG, Mosaic by A. Raymond Katz Image:Rego Park Jewish Center 02.JPG, Main building Image:Rego Park Jewish Center 03.JPG, Entire complex as seen from Queens Blvd. References External links * {{National Register of Historic Places listings in Queens Synagog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queens Jewish Center
The Queens Jewish Center, also known as Queens Jewish Center and Talmud Torah or QJC, is an Orthodox synagogue in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was established by a dozen families in 1943 to serve the growing central Queens Jewish community. The current spiritual leader is Rabbi Judah Kerbel. Queens Jewish Center has services every day of the week, including holidays. Organization affiliations The Queens Jewish Center is a member of the Orthodox Union, the Queens Jewish Community Council, and the Vaad Harabonim of Queens. Architecture The Queens Jewish Center building won honorable mention in the 1955 Queens Chamber of Commerce, Annual Building Awards. The architect was David Moed of Manhattan and the builder was the LeFrak Organization. The structure actually consists of two separate buildings. On October 3, 1946 an option was taken on the vacant plot where both synagogue buildings now stand. Ground was first broken for the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollis Hills Jewish Center
Congregation Etz Hayim at Hollis Hills Bayside is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located in the neighborhood of Hollis Hills in Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The congregation was formed through a May 2021 consolidation of the Hollis Hills Bayside Jewish Center and the Marathon Jewish Community Center. As of 2016, 240 families were members of the synagogue. The synagogue today reflects a consolidation of the Hollis Hills Jewish Center, the Bayside Jewish Center Jewish Center of Oak Hills, and Marathon Jewish Community Center. History Hollis Hills Jewish Center Construction of the present building, originally named Hollis Hills Jewish Center, began on May 15, 1949. The cornerstone was laid on December 18, 1949. Hollis Hills Jewish Center was built in three stages. First, the basement was built on the 211th Street side of Union Turnpike. The original sanctuary was in this structure. During the second phase, in the 1950s, a new sanctuary was built above th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Center Of Norwich
The Eaton Family Residence-Jewish Center of Norwich is a historic home, now unaffiliated Jewish synagogue and community center, located at 72 South Broad Street in Norwich, Chenango County, in New York, in the United States. The house was built in 1914 for R. D. Eaton to house his family, one of the most prominent families in Central New York. The -story, tan brick residence with a green ceramic tile, side-gabled roof resting on a cut stone foundations completed in the Colonial Revival style. The main block is rectangular, five bays wide and two bays deep. The main entrance is set within a prominent one bay wood portico with gabled roof supported by paired, fluted classical columns. The building has been used as a synagogue and community center by local German-Jewish refugees, since 1955. ''See also:'' The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. In April 2008, the synagogue was vandalised by three teenagers, who were charged with burglary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Sinai Jewish Center
The Mount Sinai Jewish Center is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue that practices in the Ashkenazi rite, located in the Washington Heights and Hudson Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. The building's main entrance is at 135 Bennett Avenue at the corner of 187th Street, and it spans the entire block to Broadway. History The congregation is the successor to many "shuls" that have merged over the past 102 years. Its official title is Congregation Mount Sinai Anshe Emeth and Emes Wozedek of Washington Heights Inc., and Congregation Beth Hillel & Beth Israel. Since 2002, Mount Sinai has seen a massive resurgence due to the influx of many young, religious Jews moving to the neighborhood. The stained glass windows in the sanctuary were designed and made by Jean-Jacques Duval. Present The current rabbi A rabbi (; ) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Center (Manhattan)
The Jewish Center is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 131 West 86th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, United States. History The synagogue was founded in 1918 by prosperous Jews moving into the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a neighborhood that was just being built along the new IRT subway line. As there was no Ashkenazi synagogue that could meet their needs, the Jews moving there decided to build a traditional Orthodox Synagogue in their neighborhood. The large synagogue is in a tall Neo-Classical building at 131 West 86th Street that contains a large number of social halls, classrooms, auditoriums and offices in addition to the Neo-Classical main sanctuary. The synagogue was the first in America to be built not only to serve as spiritual home to its members, but also as a cultural, social and recreational home. The synagogue's members affectionately refer to the synagogue as "The first Shul with a Pool." It continues to supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel West Side Jewish Center
Congregation Beth Israel, commonly referred to as the West Side Jewish Center or, in more recent years, the Hudson Yards Synagogue, is an Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 347 West 34th Street (Manhattan), 34th Street, in the Garment District, Manhattan, Garment District of Manhattan, in New York City, New York (state), New York,#refHomepage, Synagogue website. in the United States. Established in 1890, the congregation completed its current building near Pennsylvania Station (New York City), Penn Station in 1925. Rabbi Jason Herman has served as rabbi since 2005. Previous rabbis have included Joseph Schick, Norman Lamm, and Solomon Kahane. History Early years Congregation Beth Israel West Side Jewish Center was established in 1890 by Orthodox German Jews and Jews from Austria-Hungary.#refHistory, History, Synagogue website. In its early years the congregation worshiped at 252 West 35th Street (Manhattan), 35th Street,#refAJYearBookV21, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Tryon Jewish Center
The Fort Tryon Jewish Center is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 524 Fort Washington Avenue between West 183rd and 184th Streets, across from Bennett Park in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. The rabbi, since January 2013, is Rabbi Guy Austrian. History The congregation was founded in 1938 by long-time residents of the city and refugees from Nazi Germany. It first occupied leased space, building a modest facility in 1950, and then a spacious sanctuary that opened in 1960, designed by N. J. Sapienza in the Modernist style. The Torah Ark in the building has been described as "a gem of midcentury design." Stained glass windows designed by Juliene Berk, depicting the elements of the earth, lined the sanctuary. (The windows were removed and placed in storage in 2021.) From 2002 on, the congregation grew as young families moved into the neighborhood. Failed real estate deal In an April 2014 article, the ''New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
