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Congregation Albert was established as a congregation in 1897. It was established by Alfred Grunsfeld (its first treasurer), Henry N. Jaffa (its first president and the first Mayor of Albuquerque), and Berthold Spitz (the city's Postmaster for 12 years), after discussions with 70 members of the first congregation in Albuquerque, the B’nai Brith Lodge No. 336, which had been formed in 1883.
As a result of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent 2005 levee failures in Greater New Orleans, the congregation's building at 7000 Canal Boulevard filled with at least ten feet of water, and Beth Israel garnered national attention after attempts were made to save its Torah scrolls. [3] Beth Israel's rabbi, Yisroel Shiff, who had evacuated to ...
The synagogue was consecrated on April 4, 1965, with Chief Rabbi of France Jacob Kaplan, Chief Rabbi of Pairs Meyer Jaïs and Alain de Rothschild, President of the Israelite Central Consistory of Paris. [5] [4] The building adopted a rectangular design. The Ten Commandments are mounted above the entrance.
Rabbi Kaplan called this book his 10th child, since it took him exactly nine months to complete. [3] Moznaim, 1981, ISBN 0-940118-35-1 ) "The Handbook of Jewish Thought," produced early in his career, is a wide-ranging treatment of Judaism's fundamental beliefs [ 50 ] in two volumes, the first of which was published in Kaplan's lifetime. [ 51 ]
The Living Torah [3] is a 1981 translation of the Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. It was and remains a highly popular translation, [4] and was reissued in a Hebrew-English version with haftarot for synagogue use. Kaplan had the following goals for his translation, which were arguably absent from previous English translations: Make it clear and ...
Construction on the new space began in April 2009. [8] The congregation held services in neighboring Westminster Presbyterian Church from February 8, 2009 until August 27, 2010. [9] On August 27, 2010, the congregation held its first Shabbat services in its renovated sanctuary. The next day Kol Shofar held a reopening celebration.
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April 3 is the 93rd day of the year ... Paul Craig Roberts, ... Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1913) 2016 – Cesare Maldini, ...