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The congregation is a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. Beth Am has a sister congregation in Poltava, Ukraine, also known as Beth Am. Beth Am has a program aimed at helping emigrant families from the former Soviet Union. Two congregation members have won Nobel Prizes. [3]
He is Jewish, and attended Hebrew school and had a bar mitzvah at Congregation Beth-Am in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. [4] [5] Borenstein's younger sister, Katie, died at age 20 from a blood clot in her pulmonary artery on January 25, 2014. [6] Borenstein has a tattoo on his arm of a song lyric about her. [5]
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The associate rabbi and director of Beth Am's educational programs as of 2024 is Tyler Dratch who joined the congregation in July 2021. The Cantor Emeritus is Ira Greenstein who served as hazzan from 2000 to 2020. [14] The congregation is administered by a number of committees over which its executive director and board of trustees presides.
The congregation was formed in 2008 through the merger of two congregations, named Temple Beth El and Temple Shaarey Zedek. [2] In 2018 Rabbi Samuel Barth was appointed as rabbi. He succeeded Rabbi Perry Netter. [3] The new building for the synagogue was completed in 2020 by Finegold Alexander Architects.
The roots of the Astoria Center of Israel can be traced back to Jewish congregation Mishkan Israel, begun sometime in the 1880s, constructing a building in 1906. In 1921 that congregation built a Talmud Torah next to its first building, where education could "implant in our children a love and reverence for our noble tradition." That education ...
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The congregation made history when its application for membership into the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC) (now the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ)) was not accepted. [3] Beth Adam's application challenged the Reform movement to determine if it was willing to embrace a wide spectrum of belief. As Rabbi Alan Kaplan, then head of the ...