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[citation needed] The congregation welcomes all Jews, especially those who were not raised in the Orthodox Jewish tradition, such as Baalei teshuva or converts to Judaism. [3] [9] In conjunction with the synagogue's 25th anniversary in 2011, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore proclaimed March 13, 2011 as "Rabbi Menachem Goldberger Day".
Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew: קהילת שארית ישראל דבאלטימאר; nicknamed The Glen Avenue Shul) is a historic Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 5835 Park Heights Avenue, in Park Heights, northwest Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. [1]
Former synagogue of Har Sinai Congregation built in 2001 at Owings Mills. Many of the original congregants of Har Sinai Congregation came from what was then the Orthodox Congregation Nidchei Yisroel (later known as the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation), after Rabbi Abraham Rice protested against the performance of Masonic rites at the funeral service of one of its members. [1]
It was originally an Orthodox synagogue, but became Reform officially in 1871. The pressure from the Congregation for modernization was such that its Orthodox first rabbi, Abraham Rice, resigned his position in 1849 over this question. In 1845, the congregation moved to Lloyd Street under the new name, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
Winands Road Synagogue Center was an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Randallstown, Maryland, active from 1968 until its closure in 2019.Formed from the merger of multiple Baltimore congregations, it served as the last synagogue in the Randallstown area and merged with Beth Tfiloh Congregation shortly before discontinuing operations.
The New York City synagogue that she led for 32 years — Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in midtown Manhattan — will have to grapple with its identity after being defined by its celebrity rabbi ...
The congregation had no full-time rabbi in the years 2000–2002, when they were served part-time by Rabbi Sheila Russian, who in 1979 had become the first female rabbi in Baltimore. [ 10 ] In 2019 the synagogue underwent a major $5.5 million renovation that added new classrooms, a grand new staircase, and a redesigned sanctuary. [ 11 ]
Two Jewish schools in Montreal were targeted at night by gunfire earlier this month. One of the schools was attacked twice. A synagogue was also firebombed in the suburb of Dollard-des-Ormeaux ...