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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 ...
The focal point of a Jewish synagogue’s sanctuary is the ark, an often ornate cabinet that enshrines the Torah scrolls, sacred hand-written texts of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
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 ...
Congregation Beth Israel, Berkeley; Beyt Tikkun Synagogue, Berkeley; Peninsula Temple Sholom, Burlingame; Congregation B'nai Israel, Daly City; Temple Beth Israel, Fresno; Temple Ahavat Shalom Northridge, Los Angeles
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.
A Massachusetts man faces up two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to threatening to kill Jewish children and bomb local synagogues over the Israel-Hamas war.. John Reardon, 59, of ...
Synagogues in California. Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. ... Sacramento synagogue firebombings; C. Congregation B ...