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The congregation was founded in 1938. [4] [5] The first rabbi, Ernest Trattner, served until 1947.[6] [7]The current building, completed in 1953, was the first religious building designed by architect Sidney Eisenshtat, who went on to become a noted designer of synagogues and Jewish academic buildings. [8]
Temple Ahavat Shalom Northridge, Los Angeles; Congregation Beth Am, ... Congregation Emanu-El of New York. Temple Emanu-El of New York (1930), Upper East Side;
Emanu-El (also spelled Emanuel) (Hebrew: עִמָּנוּאֵל imanuél, "God [is] with us", from עִמָּנוּ imánu, "with us" + אֵל el, "God"), or Temple Emanuel, may refer to the following Jewish synagogues:
In 1860, a Reform rabbi, Elkan Cohn, arrived to lead the Emanu-El congregation, and in 1877, it was the first congregation in the West to join the Reform movement. [10] From 1866 to 1926, Congregation Emanu-El's synagogue was on Sutter Street, it was grand in scale and had twin octagonal towers topped by bronze-plated domes. [10]
This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851. The 16 signatories were mostly German Jews from Bavaria . In 1860, Reform rabbi Elkan Cohn joined the Emanu-El congregation; in 1877, he led the congregation as the first in the West to join the Reform Movement . [ 1 ]
First organized as the Highland Park Hebrew School Association in 1923, the congregation completed construction of its Spanish Colonial Revival style building in 1930, at a cost of $4,078 (today $74,000). [2] It is the oldest synagogue in Los Angeles exclusively operating in its original location.
It is the third oldest Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles. [3] Jacob Pressman served as its rabbi from 1950 to 1985. [2] [4] Under his leadership, the synagogue took its current name, Temple Beth Am in 1957. [2] It moved into a new building designed by the African-American architect, Ralph A. Vaughn, in 1959. [5]
Congregation Emanu-El on Sutter Street (1866–1926), San Francisco. The history of the Jews in San Francisco began with the California Gold Rush in the second half of the 19th-century. The San Francisco Bay Area has the fourth largest Jewish population in the U.S. [1] behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles.