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Congregation Sherith Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "loyal remnant of Israel") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in San Francisco, California, in the United States. Founded in 1851 during California’s Gold Rush period , it is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States .
Congregation Beth Israel was founded as an Orthodox synagogue [7]: 188 in San Francisco in 1860, and subsequently became "the first conservative congregation west of Chicago". [ 2 ] [ 6 ] : 62 From 1860 to 1874 the congregation worshiped in a leased building on Sutter Street between Dupont and Stockton Streets.
Bush Street Temple; C. Congregation B'nai David; Congregation Sherith Israel (San Francisco, California) E. Congregation Emanu-El (San Francisco) H. The House of Love ...
Founded in 1921, it is one of the oldest synagogues west of the Mississippi River. [1] A member of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Congregation Beth Sholom is a hub of the Bay Area Jewish community.
Micky Arison, Israel/US, owner of Miami Heat [2] [30] Larry Baer, US, CEO of the San Francisco Giants; Steve Ballmer, US, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers; Alona Barkat, Israel, owner of Israeli Premier League association football club Hapoel Be'er Sheva [87] Steve Belkin, US, former co-owner of the Atlanta Thrashers and Atlanta Hawks [30]
Congregation B'nai Israel is a Karaite Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1575 Annie Street, in Daly City, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California in the United States. It is the only Karaite congregation in the United States. [1] The synagogue building was purchased in 1995 from a former Orthodox congregation called B'ai Israel ...
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.
During the Gold Rush in 1849, a small group of Jews held the first High Holy Days services in a tent in San Francisco; it was the first Jewish service on the West Coast of the United States. [1] This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851.