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Jewish Center (other)
Jewish Center may refer to: * Jewish Center (Manhattan), an Orthodox synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan * Jewish Center of Coney Island, a synagogue in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York * Jewish Center of the Hamptons, a synagogue in Long Island, New York * Jewish Center of Kings Highway, Brooklyn, New York * Jewish Center of Lake Huntington, New York * Jewish Center of Norwich, New York * Akron Jewish Center, a registered historic building in Akron, Ohio * Beth El Jewish Center of Flatbush, a synagogue in Flatbush, Brooklyn * East Meadow Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue in East Meadow, New York * East Midwood Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue in Midwood, Brooklyn * Freehold Jewish Center (Congregation Agudath Achim), a synagogue in Freehold, New Jersey * Fort Tryon Jewish Center, a synagogue in Manhattan * Hollis Hills Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue in Hollis Hills, Queens * Jericho Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue in Jericho, New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish Center (Manhattan)
The Jewish Center is a Modern Orthodox synagogue on New York City's Upper West Side. 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. 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 support a variety of educational and social programming. The first rabbi was Mordecai Kaplan, who left in 1921 because his positions were too reform oriented for the Orthodox congregation. The congregation then hired Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, who la ... [...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.Garcia, Ernie"Yonkers' Lincoln Park Jewish Center sold to Brooklyn congregation" ''USA Today'', February 3, 2017. 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 , image_flag = Bandera de E ... [...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 Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 347 West 34th Street, in the Garment District of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, Synagogue website. in the United States. Established in 1890, the congregation completed its current building near 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. History, Synagogue website. In its early years the congregation worshiped at 252 West 35th Street, ''American Jewish Year Book'', Vol. 21, p. 460. a building later purchased by St. Paul Baptist Church. Dunlap (2004), p. 23. In 1905, the congregation constructed a new synagogue bui ... [...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 Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ..., 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 g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverdale Jewish Center
The Riverdale Jewish Center is an Orthodox synagogue in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City.Freedman, Samuel G"Two Rabbis Find They’re Separated Only by Doctrine" ''The New York Times', May 30, 2009. The synagogue was founded by the Communal Services Division of Yeshiva University and has always identified itself as a bastion of that institution. Its rabbis included its founder Jacob Sable, Irving Greenberg, Yehezkel Hartmann, Joshua Shmidman, Abner Weiss and Jonathan Rosenblatt. The Senior Rabbi is Rabbi Dovid Zirkind and the assistant rabbi is Rabbi Tzvi Benoff. In the 2009 New York City bomb plot the New York City Police Department foiled a plot by American Muslims to bomb the synagogue. On May 30, 2009, New York Governor David Paterson announced he would give the Center and the Riverdale Reform Temple $25,000 each to improve their security. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rego Park Jewish Center
The Rego Park Jewish Center (1948) is an Art Deco Streamline Moderne synagogue in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The architectural firm of Frank Grad & Sons designed the building."Conservancy holds exclusive tour of historic Queens Synagogues" , New York Landmarks Conservancy
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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 known for its significant contributions to the Jewish community. The synagogue was established by a dozen families in 1943 to serve the growing central Queens Jewish community.Queens Jewish Center History page The current spiritual leader is Rabbi Judah Kerbel.Queens Jewish Center clergy and staff VHQ Member Synagogues Organization Affiliations The Queens Jewish Center is a member of the following Jewish organizations: * Orthodox Union (OU) *Queens Jewish Community Council (QJCC) *Vaad Harabonim of Queens (VHQ) Services Queens Jewish Center has services every day of the week, including holidays. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Slope Jewish Center
The Park Slope Jewish Center is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located at 1320 Eighth Avenue in South Slope, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. Established as a congregation in , from 1942 to 1960 they were known as Congregation B'nai Jacob - Tifereth Israel. Overview The synagogue was built in 1925 as the Orthodox Congregation B'nai Jacob, and is a -story brick building with Romanesque and Baroque style elements. It features the Star of David on exterior masonry, a rose window Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in Gothic cathedrals and churches. The windows are divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery. The term ''rose window'' w ..., and a domed skylight. ''See also:'' The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. A $1.75 million renovation and expansion was completed in 2015. Rabbi Carie Carter has served the congre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Jewish Center
The Pacific Jewish Center, also known as The Shul on the Beach or PJC, is a synagogue in Venice, Los Angeles, California, known for its outreach to unaffiliated and disconnected Jews. The Shul remains the last of the synagogues built in Venice, Los Angeles, Venice during the first part of the 20th century. Although an Orthodox Judaism, 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 disappeared by the late 1960s. The membership had gradually dwindled until there was hardly a minyan avail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean Parkway Jewish Center
The Ocean Parkway Jewish Center is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 550 Ocean Parkway, in Kensington, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was built between 1924 and 1926 and is a three-story plus basement and attic, stone clad Neoclassical style building, with a two-story addition. The front façade features three round-arched entrances and the second and third stories are organized as a temple front. ''See also:'' It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The Chairman and Director is Allen Michaels. History The synagogue was established following the 1924 merger of its predecessors, the First Congregation of Kensington, founded 1907, and the West Flatbush Jewish Center. The two synagogues, located about two blocks apart from each other (Ditmas and Dahill Roads, and East 2nd Street near Ditmas, respectively) had outgrown their spaces, and purchased seven lots on Ocean Parkway immediately within one month of j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosholu Jewish Center
The Mosholu Jewish Center was an Orthodox Jewish community center and synagogue located at 3044 Hull Avenue, in the Norwood, Bronx neighborhood in New York City. The building is now used as a pre-school. History The synagogue was founded in 1927, and closed in 1999 due to the declining Jewish population of the Bronx. Rabbi Herschel Schacter Herschel Schacter (October 10, 1917 – March 21, 2013) was an American Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox rabbi and chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Early life Schacter was born in Brownsville, Brooklyn ... led the congregation from 1947 to its 1999 close. The Neo-Renaissance building was sold to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York in 2000 and repurposed in 2003 as the Head Start pre-school program. References 1927 establishments in New York City 1999 disestablishments in New York (state) 2003 establishments in New York City 20th-century synagogues in the United States Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Sinai Jewish Center
The Mount Sinai Jewish Center (MSJC) is an Orthodox Jewish Ashkenazi congregation in the Washington Heights / Hudson Heights neighborhood, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The building's main entrance is at 135 Bennett Avenue at the corner of W. 187th Street, and it spans the entire block to Broadway Broadway may refer to: Theatre * Broadway Theatre (other) * Broadway theatre, theatrical productions in professional theatres near Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, U.S. ** Broadway (Manhattan), the street **Broadway Theatre (53rd Stree .... 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 sanctu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
