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Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, abbreviated as KI, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park, just outside the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Founded in Philadelphia in 1847, it is the sixth oldest Reform congregation in the United States, and, by 1900, it was one of ...
Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, founded in 1847, was the sixth Reform Jewish synagogue founded in the United States. (Rodeph Shalom is now Reform but was originally Orthodox). Congregation Beth Israel (Honesdale, Pennsylvania)'s building was constructed in 1856 and is the oldest purpose-built synagogue in Pennsylvania that is still in use.
Temple Israel, Boston, now Morse Auditorium; The Vilna Shul, Boston; Beth Israel Synagogue, Cambridge; B'nai Abraham Congregation, Sandisfield, previously Montville Baptist Church, now the Sandisfield Arts Center; Shaarai Torah Synagogue, Worcester
Formerly known as Evangel Church, the congregation has been in Detroit for 55 years, renaming itself during the COVID-19 pandemic as 180 Church to symbolize people turning their lives around.
Pastor Marvin Winans is shown on the roof of the Perfecting Church on Woodward at 7 Mile in Detroit in July 2011. At the time, construction had stalled for a couple of years due to the economy ...
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However, social strife crept in and "uncomfortable with the presence of German Jews at Port Chester's Kneses Israel," eight Russian peddlers split off to create Congregation Tifereth Israel in 1903. Both groups were drawn to more flexible conservative practice, which was not yet recognized, but were not seeking the more popular Reform movement.
In 2001, Sussman moved to metropolitan Philadelphia where he accepted the pulpit at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI), which is the oldest reform congregation in Pennsylvania. [1] KI was founded in 1847 as an orthodox synagogue and became a reform congregation in 1855. It was the fifth reform congregation in the United States. [25]