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Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, abbreviated as KI, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 8339 Old York Road, Elkins Park, just outside the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Founded in Philadelphia in 1847, it is the sixth oldest Reform congregation in the United States, and, by 1900, it was one of ...
In March 2010, Case Western Reserve University and The Temple Tifereth-Israel announced a historic partnership to create the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center, which was led by a donation of $12 million from the Maltz Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. The university estimated that the total ...
Congregation B'nai Israel, Bridgeport; Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek, Chester; Congregation Knesseth Israel, Ellington; Congregation Ahavath Achim, Fairfield; Congregation Mishkan Israel, Hamden; Congregation Beth Israel, Hartford (West) Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont, Milford; Tephereth Israel Synagogue, New Britain; Beth Israel Synagogue, New Haven
The Tifereth Israel congregation was founded in 26 May 1850 as a number of families disputed over religious ritual and left the Orthodox Anshe Chesed congregation, the first Jewish congregation in Cleveland. The same year, Rabbi Isidor Kalisch, who had been rabbi at Anshe Chesed, was appointed the first rabbi of Tifereth Israel. [2]
The congregation was the oldest Jewish congregation in the Cleveland area through mid-2024. [1] The congregation's membership exceeded 2,000 families in the mid-1990s. [2] The synagogue was a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. On 1 July 2024, Fairmount Temple merged with Temple Tifereth-Israel to create a new Reform congregation, Mishkan ...
Lance Jonathan Sussman (born July 17, 1954) is a historian of American Jewish History, college professor, Chair of the Board of Governors of Gratz College, Melrose Park, PA and until summer 2022 the senior rabbi, now emeritus, at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI) [1] located in Elkins Park, PA.
The Oheb Zedek Cedar Sinai Synagogue is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 23749 Cedar Road, in Lyndhurst, an eastern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. The congregation was formed in 2012, through a merger of two congregations dating from 1887.
The dome of Park Synagogue's former Cleveland Heights building, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, since vacated.. The following summer, in 1943, a day care and nursery school began functioning there, and an adjacent lot of 21 acres (8.5 ha) was purchased from John D. Rockefeller - thus forming a magnificent property with a creek and ravine running through it.