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Shiva (Hebrew: שִׁבְעָה , romanized: šīvʿā, lit. 'seven') is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva" in English. The shiva period lasts for seven days following the burial.
This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva ( Hebrew : ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism .
The following is a list of temples associated with the Jewish religion throughout its history and development, including Yahwism.While in the modern day, Rabbinic Jews will refer to "The Temple", and state that temples other than the Jerusalem temple, especially outside Israel, [1] are invalid, during the era in which Judaism had temples, multiple existed concurrently.
Areas and locations in the United States where Orthodox Jews live in significant communities. These are areas that have within them an Orthodox Jewish community in which there is a sizable and cohesive population, which has its own eruvs, community organizations, businesses, day schools, yeshivas, and/or synagogues that serve the members of the local Orthodox community who may at times be the ...
Congregation Beth Emeth (former building), Albany, now Wilborn Temple First Church of God in Christ; Temple of Israel, Amsterdam; Chevra Linas Hazedek Synagogue of Harlem and the Bronx, the Bronx; Mosholu Jewish Center, the Bronx; Shaari Zedek Synagogue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; Jewish Center of Brighton Beach, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
It follows traditional Jewish liturgy and laws, including Sabbath and "a modified version of kosher dietary laws". [ 11 ] The congregation is currently housed in a previously existing synagogue purchased from the Lawn Manor Hebrew Congregation, a Conservative temple of Ashkenazi Lithuanian Jews at West 66th Street and South Kedzie Avenue in the ...
Jewish Renewal: Shir Tikvah Congregation Minneapolis: Reform [19] Temple Israel: Minneapolis: Reform Temple Israel Duluth: Reform [20] Temple of Aaron Congregation St. Paul: Conservative [21] Upper Midwest Merkos - Lubavitch House West St. Paul: Orthodox [22]
Their combined Shepherd Park building opened in 1960. Membership fell in the late twentieth century as Jewish families moved to the suburbs. The synagogue opened a branch composed largely of younger families in Olney, Maryland, in 1994, [4] which became the separate congregation Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah Congregation of Olney between 2002 and ...