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List Of Synagogues In The United States
This is a list of notable synagogues in the United States. By state Alabama * Temple Beth-El, Anniston * Temple Beth-El, Birmingham * Temple Emanu-El, Birmingham * Knesseth Israel, Birmingham * Temple B'nai Sholom, Huntsville * Sha’arai Shomayim Congregation, Mobile * Agudath Israel Etz Ahayem, Montgomery * Temple Beth Or, Montgomery Former synagogues * B'nai Jeshurun, Demopolis * Beth Israel Congregation, Gadsden Arizona * Beth Israel, Scottsdale * Temple Emanuel, Tempe * Kol Ami, Tucson Former synagogues * Temple Beth Israel, Phoenix (former: 19211949, now museum) * Tucson Jewish Museum & Holocaust Center, located in the oldest synagogue in the state Arkansas *Temple Shalom of Northwest Arkansas, Fayetteville Former synagogue * Temple Meir Chayim, McGehee (19472016) California * Congregation Beth Israel, Berkeley * Beyt Tikkun Synagogue, Berkeley * Peninsula Temple Sholom, Burlingame * Congregation B'nai Israel, Daly City * Temple Beth Isr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synagogues
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It is a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, choir performances, and children's plays. They often also have rooms for study, social halls, administrative and charitable offices, classrooms for religious and Hebrew studies, and many places to sit and congregate. They often display commemorative, historic, or modern artwork alongside items of Jewish historical significance or history about the synagogue itself. Synagogues are buildings used for Jewish prayer, study, assembly, and reading of the Torah. The Torah (Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses) is traditionally read in its entirety over a period of a year in weekly portions during services, or in some synagogues on a triennial cycle. However, the edifice of a synagogue as such is not essential for holdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Chai (Scottsdale)
A temple (from the Latin ) is a place of worship, a building used for spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice. By convention, the specially built places of worship of some religions are commonly called "temples" in English, while those of other religions are not, even though they fulfill very similar functions. The religions for which the terms are used include the great majority of ancient religions that are now extinct, such as the Ancient Egyptian religion and the Ancient Greek religion. Among religions still active: Hinduism (whose temples are called Mandir or Kovil), Buddhism (whose temples are called Vihar), Sikhism (whose temples are called gurudwara), Jainism (whose temples are sometimes called derasar), Zoroastrianism (whose temples are sometimes called Agiary), the Baháʼí Faith (which are often simply referred to as Baháʼí House of Worship), Taoism (which are sometimes called Daoguan), Shinto (which are often called Jinja), Confucian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Chayim Chadashim
Beth Chayim Chadashim (), abbreviated as BCC, is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 6090 West Pico Boulevard, in Mid-City Los Angeles, California, in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1972, primarily for lesbian and gay Jews. The Los Angeles Conservancy acknowledges the congregation as being "culturally significant" as both the first LGBT synagogue in the world, the first LGBT synagogue recognized by the Union for Reform Judaism and, in 1977, as the first LGBT synagogue to own its own building. History On April 4, 1972, Selma Kay, Jerry Gordon, Jerry Small, and Bob Zalkin were the only people who came to a weekly Wednesday night meeting at Los Angeles's Metropolitan Community Church. They were all Jewish, and Selma asked, "Why don't we form a temple with an outreach to the gay Jews?" The others agreed, and Rev. Troy Perry offered them the use of the church's facilities free of charge. About a dozen women and men responded to the call to an ad hoc committee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Am
Congregation Beth Am () is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Los Altos Hills, California, in the United States. The congregation is a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. Beth Am has a sister congregation in Poltava, Ukraine, also known as Beth Am. Beth Am has a program aimed at helping emigrant families from the former Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet .... Two congregation members have won Nobel Prizes. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Beth Am Ashkenazi Jewish culture in California Reform synagogues in California Ukrainian-American culture in California Ukrainian-Jewish culture in the United States Los Altos, California Religious buildings and structures in Santa Clara County, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Ahavat Shalom Northridge
Temple Ahavat Shalom Northridge (transliterated from Hebrew as "Love of peace") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue at 18200 Rinaldi Place, in Northridge, in San Fernando Valley, Southern California, in the United States. The congregation was established in 1965 and is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism. History Temple Ahavat Shalom Northridge, abbreviated as TAS Northridge, was established in 1965 as the result of a merger between Temple Beth Torah and the North Valley Reform Congregation, both Reform synagogues in the north San Fernando Valley. Land was purchased to the south of the future path of California State Route 118, and a temporary multi-purpose building was erected in 1969. The founding rabbis were Fred Krinsky and Shimon Paskow. They were succeeded by Rabbi Allen Secher, who served from 1967 to 1971 and was the first member of the clergy to introduce multi-media worship to the synagogue experience. Secher was followed in 1971 by Rabbi Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Beth Israel (Fresno, California)
Temple Beth Israel () is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 6622 North Maroa Avenue in Fresno, California, in the United States. Founded in 1919, it was the first and remains the oldest synagogue in the San Joaquin Valley.History Synagogue website. Accessed May 30, 2012. , the rabbi
A rabbi (; ) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as ''semikha''—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of t ... was Rick Winer.
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Congregation B'nai Israel (Daly City, California)
Congregation B'nai Israel is a Karaite Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1575 Annie Street, in Daly City, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ... in the United States. It is the only Karaite congregation in the United States. The synagogue building was purchased in 1995 from a former Orthodox congregation called B'ai Israel. Rabbi Malcolm Cohen served the congregation for 19 years. References External links * 1980s establishments in California 20th-century synagogues in the United States Daly City, California Egyptian-American culture in California Egyptian-Jewish diaspora in the United States Jewish organizations established in the 1980s Karaite synagogues Religious buildings and structures in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peninsula Temple Sholom
Peninsula Temple Sholom (abbreviated as PTS) is a Reform Judaism, Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue in Burlingame, California, Burlingame, California, in the United States. Founded in 1955, and the congregation has expanded its facilities over the years to include a social hall, a religious school and a preschool. Rabbinical leaders The following individuals have served as senior rabbi of Peninsula Temple Sholom: Notable members *Dianna Agron, an actress *Scott Feldman, a professional baseball player *Bruce Pasternack, a businessman and former president of Special Olympics International Religious school and preschool The religious school was established in January, 1956, and 136 students were enrolled. On November 19, 1957 PTS was given the right to purchase property on Sebastian Drive for the construction of a new synagogue and religious school. In 1958, Chester Zeff was hired to be the first religious school director. In the 1982 a new preschool was added to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lerner (rabbi)
Michael Phillip Lerner (February 7, 1943 – August 28, 2024) was an American political activist, the editor of '' Tikkun'', a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley. Biography Early life and education Michael Lerner was born in February 7, 1943, and grew up in the Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey.Lerner, Michael. ''The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism''. 1997, page 258-9 In his youth, he attended Far Brook Country Day School, a private school that he characterized as having "a rich commitment to interdenominational Christianity". While he has written that he appreciated "the immense beauty and wisdom of the Christianity to which ewas being exposed", he also felt religiously isolated, as the child of passionate Zionists who attended Hebrew school three times a week, while at the same time being heavily exposed to Christian-oriented cultural ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Beth Israel (Berkeley, California)
Congregation Beth Israel () is a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Berkeley, California, in the United States. Established in 1924 as the Berkeley Hebrew Center, it traces its origins to the First Hebrew Congregation of Berkeley, founded in 1909. It was Berkeley's first synagogue and remains its oldest. Lay-led for four decades, it hired its first rabbi, Saul Berman, in 1963. Berman served until 1969, and was succeeded by Yosef Leibowitz, who served for 15 years. During the 1980s and early 1990s Beth Israel was at the vanguard of the ''baal teshuva'' movement in Modern Orthodox Judaism. In 1999 the congregation began an $8 million fund-raising campaign to build a new synagogue, a replica of the Przedbórz Synagogue, destroyed in Poland by the Nazis, during the Holocaust in 1942. Difficult economic times restricted fundraising efforts, and instead the congregation completed a more modest structure in 2005. , the rabbi was Yonatan Cohen. Early years Congregation Beth Israel was establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Meir Chayim
Temple Meir Chayim is a historic former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4th and Holly Streets in McGehee, Arkansas, in the United States. The building operated as a synagogue between 1947 and 2016; and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. History The Reform congregation was founded in 1946 as Beth Chayim (transliterated from Hebrew as "House of Life") that was started by a local chapter of B'nai B'rith, founded in 1927 in Desha County. The congregation was renamed as Meir Chayim shortly thereafter to honor a local resident, Sergeant Herbert M. Abowitz. By the latter part of the 20th-century, the Jewish population tended to migrate away from small towns in Arkansas towards larger cities, impacting Meir Chayim. By 1984, Meir Chayim served a community of less than one hundred Jews over a area. Membership had fallen to approximately twenty families by that time, with only four Jewish children attending religious school in Greenvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Shalom Of Northwest Arkansas
Temple Shalom of Northwest Arkansas is an Jewish religious movements#Trans- and post-denominational Judaism, unaffiliated Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 699 North Sang Avenue, in the Fayetteville, Arkansas, Fayetteville area of Arkansas, in the United States. The small, mixed-denomination congregation is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism, yet it supports a variety of activities and services for Jews of all backgrounds. Early history Arising out of an independent minyan from the 1970s, Temple Shalom was formed on February 23, 1981, following a meeting of approximately 30 people in Fayetteville on January 21, 1981 held with Rabbi Lawrence Jackofsky of the Southwest Council, Union of American Hebrew Congregations of Dallas. A month later, Rabbi Norbert L. Rosenthal, emeritus rabbi of Temple Israel (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Temple Israel in Tulsa, Oklahoma was invited to serve as the first rabbi. At the consecration ceremony on April 25, 1981, the officers of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
