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Congregation B'nai Israel (Hebrew: בני ישראל) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 3600 Riverside Boulevard, in Sacramento, California, in the United States. Founded in 1852 as an Orthodox community, the congregation is the oldest Jewish congregation in Sacramento.
The first and oldest Jewish Synagogue in Sacramento was dedicated on September 3, 1852. The Synagogue was used by California Gold Rush Jewish settlers to hold High Holy Days Services. B'nai Israel Sacramento, Association of the Children of Israel, was the first Jewish Synagogue on the Pacific coast of the United States. The founders of B'nai ...
In 1999, when two white supremacists firebombed three Jewish synagogues in Sacramento and then murdered a prominent gay couple in their Redding home in a violent and despicable act of homophobia ...
Temple Ahavat Shalom Northridge (transliterated from Hebrew as "Love of peace") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue at 18200 Rinaldi Place, in Northridge, in San Fernando Valley, Southern California, in the United States.
In partnership with Hillel at Davis and Sacramento, the center will act as a hub for Jewish students at Sacramento State and create a bridge with the space created 58 years ago at UC Davis.
In typical fashion they split almost immediately, forming not one but two synagogues: Congregation Sherith Israel followed the minhag Polen, the traditions of Jews from Posen in Prussia, while Congregation Emanu-El chose to worship according to the German practices of Jews from Bavaria. The synagogues have been friendly neighbors ever since. [3]
A historic Brooklyn synagogue that serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement was trashed this week during an unusual community dispute that began with the discovery of a ...
The Sacramento synagogue firebombings were attacks on three Jewish congregations in Sacramento, California — Beth Shalom, B’nai Israel, and Knesset Israel — by the white supremacist brothers Benjamin Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams on the night of June 18, 1999.