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He also served as Rabbi-in-Residence at Congregation Beth Sholom, Anchorage, Alaska from 2004 to 2007. Rabbi Wenger has been teaching World Religions at Westminster College in Salt Lake City since 2001. He also served on the faculties of Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia and Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
The synagogue was founded at an undetermined date as the B'nai Israel Congregation. In 1932, the congregations of Anshei Shalom and Bnai Jacob congregations merged to form Agudas Israel Congregation. In the same year, it moved to a former church in Avondale. [2] In 1952, Rabbi David Indich became the synagogue's spiritual leader. [1]
Rabbi Yitzchak Meir's son, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Landau, also served as a rabbi, for a time in Nyzhni Vorota as well as in Yaasin and Nitra, from 1929. [2] While both Rabbi Shalom Noach and Rabbi Yitzchak Meir were killed in the Holocaust , Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Landau was not, and emigrated to the United States after World War II, settling ...
A group of rabbis attending the Utah Jazz’s game against the Dallas Mavericks at the Delta Center on Monday were asked to remove their signs reading ‘I’m a Jew and I’m proud,’ for ...
Congregation B'rith Sholem Synagogue is a historic Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located in Ogden, Utah, in the United States.It was built in 1921, three decades after the first Jewish residents of Ogden began meeting at Ben Oppman's Clothing Store on 25th Street. [2]
Rabbi Yisroel Friedman was a direct descendant through the male line of Rabbi Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezritch (1704-1772), the main disciple of the Baal Shem Tov. [1] [2] Friedman's father, Rabbi Sholom Shachne of Prohobisht (1769-1802), died when he was six years old. He had an older brother, Avrohom (1787–1812), who became Rebbe of their ...
The synagogue installed its first rabbi in 1926. [2] From 1928 to 1935 the rabbi was Wolf Gold , [ 2 ] [ 5 ] a founder of the Williamsburg Talmud Torah and Mesivta Torah Vodaas . [ 6 ] [ 7 ] From 1935 through 1973, Dr. Harry I. Wohlberg, a professor of Bible and homiletic literature at Yeshiva University , was the rabbi. [ 8 ]
The Old City branch of the yeshiva was subsequently led by Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel, who was succeeded by Rabbi Shalom Cohen, until his death in 2022. Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kopschitz was a Rosh Yeshiva in the Old City branch until his death in 2023. [7] The Geula branch was headed by Rabbi Yehuda Tzadka from 1970 to 1983; he was followed by ...