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Then called by its Hebrew name, Etz Chayyim (Hebrew: עץ חיים, transl. 'Tree of Life'), the congregation was chartered in 1865 and acquired land in Sharpsburg for use as a cemetery. [7] The congregation met in temporary locations in the downtown area over the coming years, [8] until in 1883 it bought a former Lutheran church property downtown.
Ida B. Robinson (August 3, 1891 – April 20, 1946) was an American Holiness-Pentecostal and Charismatic denominational leader. [1] She was the founder, first Senior Bishop and President of the Mount Sinai Holy Church of America, Inc. [1] Robinson formed the organization in response to her vision and Divine Call to secure an organizational home where women preachers would be welcomed and ...
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The Church of Sinai owes its existence to the Monastery of the Transfiguration (better known as St. Catherine's Monastery). The monastery's origins are traced back to the Chapel of the Burning Bush that Constantine the Great's mother, Helena, had built over the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush.
Founded in 1931, [2] Sinai was the first Reform congregation in Springfield. The congregation's first rabbi, David M. Eichhorn , was hired in 1932 and let go just two years later due to financial difficulty brought on by the Great Depression, [ 3 ] though he went on to become a prominent American rabbi and authority on interfaith marriage and ...
Although about 80 percent of its 4,733 congregations are in the U.S., the approximately 350 delegates met outside the U.S. to stress the new church’s international identity and to facilitate ...
Emotional accounts from relatives of the victims and survivors of the partial collapse of a boat dock gangway on Georgia’s Sapelo Island and a newly released video of the frantic rescue efforts ...
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