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Temple Sinai (Champaign, IL)
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Temple Sinai or Sinai Temple may refer to: * Temple Sinai (Oakland, California), U.S. *Temple Sinai (Denver, Colorado), U.S. * Temple Sinai (New Orleans, Louisiana), U.S. * Temple Sinai (Sumter, South Carolina), U.S. *Temple Sinai (Houston), Texas, U.S. *Temple Sinai (Newport News, Virginia), U.S. *Temple Sinai (Portsmouth, Virginia), U.S. * Mount Sinai Temple (Sioux City, Iowa), U.S. * Sinai Temple (Los Angeles), California, U.S. *Sinai Temple (Springfield, Massachusetts), U.S. * Temple De Hirsch Sinai, formerly Temple Sinai, Bellevue, Washington, U.S. * Temple Emanuel Sinai (Worcester, Massachusetts), U.S. See also *Sinai (other) * * * * *Synagogue A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Sinai (Oakland, California)
Temple Sinai (officially the First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland) is a Reform synagogue located at 2808 Summit Street (28th and Webster Streets) in Oakland, California, United States. Founded in 1875, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in the East San Francisco Bay region. Its early members included Gertrude Stein and Judah Leon Magnes, who studied at Temple Sinai's Sabbath school, and Ray Frank, who taught them. Originally traditional, the temple reformed its beliefs and practices under the leadership of Rabbi Marcus Friedlander (1893–1915). By 1914, it had become a Classical Reform congregation. That year the current sanctuary was built: a Beaux-Arts structure designed by G. Albert Lansburgh, which is the oldest synagogue building in Oakland. The congregation weathered four major financial crises by 1934. From then until 2011, it was led by just three rabbis, William Stern (1934–1965), Samuel Broude (1966–1989), and Steven Chester (1989–2011). In 2006 Temple Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Sinai (Denver, Colorado)
Temple Sinai is a Reform synagogue located at 3509 South Glencoe in Denver, Colorado. History It was started in 1967 by Rabbi Raymond A. Zwerin, who had been ordained three years prior at the Hebrew Union College. The workbook ''Tzedakah, Gemilut Chasadim, and Ahavah: A Manual for World Repair'' (1990), by Joel Lurie Grishaver and Beth Huppin, was piloted at the synagogue. In September 1995, more than 650 members of the synagogue spent a day removing graffiti in Denver, painting buildings, cooking pastries, repairing toys, scraping walls, and potting plants, in an effort to fulfill a ''mitzvah''. Services It is a full-functioning synagogue with a religious school catering to preschoolers through confirmation students. Services are held every Friday night, Saturday morning, and on holidays. The synagogue has a pre-school. Building The synagogue has a large multicolored mural of children at play. The current building was built in 1984. In 2003, a meditation garden was constructe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Sinai (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Temple Sinai is a historic Reform Jewish congregation in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It is Louisiana's largest Jewish congregation, and its oldest Reform congregation.Who We Are Temple Sinai website]. Accessed June 14, 2019. History Temple Sinai was founded in 1870. The original temple building completed in 1872. It was located at between Delord Street and Calliope Street. It was used for the initial site of . |
Temple Sinai (Sumter, South Carolina)
'Temple Sinai'' is an historic Reform synagogue located at 11 Church Street on the corner of West Hampton Avenue, in Sumter, South Carolina, United States. Built in 1912 of brick in the Moorish Revival style, Temple Sinai was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1999. It is also known as Congregation Sinai, whose official name is the Sumter Society of Israelites. It also houses thTemple Sinai Jewish History Centerwhich opened in June 2018. History The first Jewish settlers in Sumter were Sephardi who came from Charleston in 1815. Congregation Sinai, whose official name is the Sumter Society of Israelites, was formed in April, 1895, by the merger of the Hebrew Cemetery Society and the Sumter Hebrew Benevolent Society. Visiting rabbis from Charleston and Augusta, Georgia. served the congregation until 1904 when Rabbi Jacob Klein settled in Sumter. The sanctuary of the present temple was built in 1912 facing Church Street to replace an earlier wooden s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Sinai (Houston)
Temple Sinai is a Reform Jewish Synagogue located in Houston, Texas. It primarily serves Jewish residents on the west side of the city as well as a number of western suburbs, including Katy, Cinco Ranch and Sugar Land. The congregation is composed of more than 200 families and is led by Rabbi David Lipper who was hired in 2022. The synagogue is a member of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) and its youth group is associated with the North American Federation of Temple Youth NFTY: The Reform Jewish Youth Movement (formerly known as the North American Federation for Temple Youth, often referred to simply as NFTY, commonly pronounced ''"nifty"'') is the organized youth movement of Reform Judaism in North America. Fun ... (NFTY). History The congregation was founded in 1979 by nine families seeking to establish a Reform Jewish presence in western Harris County. Its first Rabbi, Abraham Shaw served in a part-time capacity until 1984, when he was succeeded by Rabbi Howard Rabinowit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Sinai (Newport News, Virginia)
Temple Sinai is an historic Reform synagogue at 11620 Warwick Boulevard in Newport News, Virginia. Established in 1955, the congregation was the first (and to date is the only) Reform congregation on the Virginia Peninsula. Its building was designed by Edward Loewenstein and completed in 1960, and is a locally significant example of Modern architecture. It is a roughly rectangular single-story building, finished in brick veneer, with a projecting trapezoidal entrance. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. See also * National Register of Historic Places in Newport News, Virginia __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport News, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city o ... References External linksTemple Sinai website {{National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Sinai (Portsmouth, Virginia)
Temple Sinai was an egalitarian, Reform synagogue established in Portsmouth, Virginia, in December 1953. The congregation, which was located at 4401 Hatton Point Road, was called ''A Family of Traditional and Non-Traditional Families'' and was a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. The congregation was headed by Rabbi Arthur Z. Steinberg, of blessed memory. Temple Sinai celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2004. Temple Sinai merged with Norfolk's Ohef Sholom Temple in June 2012. History Temple Sinai was founded on December 2, 1953, during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Its seven sponsoring members agreed on the congregation's name within a few days and held their first religious service at the Portsmouth Women's Club on January 8, 1954. Until the construction of its building, services were also held at the Portsmouth Coca-Cola Bottling Works and the Suburban Country Club. The cornerstone for the building on its site on Hatton Point Road was laid in 1956. Temple Sinai marked its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Sinai Temple (Sioux City, Iowa)
Mount Sinai Temple was a Reform synagogue located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. History There were Jews living in Sioux City as early as the 1860s, but a synagogue was not built in the city until 1884. Adas Jeshurun was an Orthodox congregation. The Jewish community in Sioux City grew from 200 in 1890 to nearly 2,500 by World War I. Sioux City was home to the second largest Jewish community in the state of Iowa at the time. Mount Sinai Temple was established in 1901. The synagogue, which opened the same year, was expanded in 1922. The building was designed in the Prairie School style. Between World Wars I and II the Jewish Community Center in Sioux City hosted 60 to 70 clubs, classes and organizations that ranged from socialist workers to Zionists. A one-mile section of West Seventh Street was home to 22 Jewish owned businesses in 1944. After World War II the Jewish community in Sioux Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai Temple (Los Angeles)
Sinai Temple in the Westwood district of Los Angeles, California is the oldest and largest Conservative Jewish congregation in the greater Los Angeles area. Architect Sidney Eisenshtat designed the current synagogue building, constructed in 1956 and expanded in 1998. Since 1997, the senior rabbi has been David Wolpe, the Rabbi Emeritus has been Zvi Dershowitz, and since 2008, the head school rabbi has been Andrew Feig. History Begun in 1906, Sinai Temple was established as the first Conservative congregation in Southern California. Its founders saw it as a venue for the practice of traditional Judaism in an environment of assimilation. The congregation first met in a B'nai B'rith hall on Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles, then from 1909 to 1925 in a building at 12th and Valencia, just west of what is now the Los Angeles Convention Center. That building then became the Welsh Presbyterian Church, and was named a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1977. (In 2013, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai Temple (Springfield, Massachusetts)
Sinai Temple (Hebrew: סִינַי) is a medium-sized Reform Jewish synagogue located in Springfield, Massachusetts, New England's fourth largest city (population 153,060). Founded in 1931, Sinai was the first Reform congregation in Springfield. The congregation's first rabbi, David M. Eichhorn, was hired in 1932 and let go just two years later due to financial difficulty brought on by the Great Depression, though he went on to become a prominent American rabbi and authority on interfaith marriage and conversion for the Reform movement. History The congregation began meeting at a mansion at 188 Sumner Ave. in Springfield in 1932, which was used as a synagogue until the late 1940s. In 1949 Sinai broke ground on a new location at 1100 Dickinson Street, near the Longmeadow border, which was completed in 1950.History Sinai Temple website]. Accessed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple De Hirsch Sinai
Temple De Hirsch Sinai is a Reform Jewish congregation with campuses in Seattle and nearby Bellevue, Washington, USA. It was formed as a 1971 merger between the earlier Temple De Hirsch (Seattle, founded 1899) and Temple Sinai (Bellevue, founded 1961) and is the largest Reform congregation in the Pacific Northwest.Lee MicklinTemple de Hirsch - Sinai HistoryLink, October 30, 1998. Accessed online 2009-10-08. The old Temple De Hirsch building (or Old Sanctuary) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, but was demolished in 1993. Part of the façade remains.Reuben McKnightTown Hall: A Case Study, ''Preservation Seattle'' (newsletter of Historic Seattle), November 2002. Accessed online 2009-10-08. Temple De Hirsch When Seattle's "quasi-Reform" Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, founded 1889, disbanded because of financial hardships after the Panic of 1893, Seattle's liberal Jews were left without a synagogue. Temple De Hirsch was founded as a specifically Reform syna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Emanuel Sinai (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Temple Emanuel Sinai (Hebrew: עִמָנוּאֵל סִינַי, ''God is with us Sinai'') is a medium-sized Reform (progressive) Jewish synagogue located in Worcester, Massachusetts, New England's second largest city (population 206,518). A product of the 2013 integration of Worcester's two original Reform congregations (Temple Emanuel and Temple Sinai), the synagogue traces its roots to 1921 and is affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), a network of over 900 progressive congregations representing the largest denomination (38%) of affiliated American Jews. The congregation worships and studies at 661 Salisbury Street, adjacent to the Worcester Jewish Community Center, where Temple Sinai acquired property for its permanent home in 1962. Temple Emanuel's building at 280 May Street was sold to the Worcester State University Foundation in 2013, though the terms of the sale allowed the congregation to use the building for two additional years, until June 2015. Planning t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
