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In April 1851, San Francisco’s frontier Jews met again, this time to establish a permanent congregation and elect officers. 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 ...
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. [2] This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851.
Pages in category "Synagogues in San Francisco" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Congregation Sherith Israel (San Francisco, California) E.
Beth Shalom built a synagogue on Fourteenth Avenue and Clement Street in 1934 after initially meeting in a church on Fourth Avenue near Geary. The first full-time rabbi, Saul White, age 27 and born and raised in Russian Poland, was hired in 1935. [2] The first bat mitvah, for Judith Stein, was held at the synagogue in 1957. [1]
The two next oldest congregations in California are Emanu-El and Sherith Israel in San Francisco. Both were founded in 1851. The two synagogues were founded simultaneously because the city's Jews could not agree on whether to follow the prayer customs of the Polish or German Jews.
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
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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.