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Beth Sholom Congregation (transliterated from Hebrew as "House of Peace") is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 8231 Old York Road in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the only synagogue designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In his later years he formed the Red Rudensky Variety Show, a troupe that toured nursing homes, and he was a regular in the St. Paul Clown Club, entertaining in children's hospital wards. [7] Red lived in semi-retirement in the Sholom Home, a nursing home in St. Paul, Minnesota, until his death on April 21, 1988. [8] [9]
The congregation was founded as Beth Jacob in 1869, [7] by more traditional members of an existing Reform German Jewish synagogue, [1] the Keap Street Temple. [8] They objected to the installation and use of a pipe organ to accompany Yom Kippur services, which was forbidden by halakha (Jewish law), and seceded and created their own congregation. [1]
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City directories from the years 1845 to 1853 list the congregation as having met at 156 Attorney Street. The first building constructed by Rodeph Sholom, at 8 Clinton Street on the Lower East Side in 1853, is still in use by Congregation Chasam Sopher. It is the second-oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City and the fifth-oldest ...
Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah (abbreviated as BSCTT) is a Modern Orthodox synagogue on Seven Locks Road in Potomac, Maryland, in the United States. [1] The largest Orthodox synagogue in the Washington metropolitan area , [ 2 ] it is led by Rabbi Nissan Antine.
Ohev Sholom Congregation (previously Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah and Ohev Sholom – The National Synagogue) (Hebrew for Lovers of Peace and Study of Torah) is the oldest Orthodox synagogue in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States.
Services were initially held in the homes of its early members before moving to the masonic temple. On October 7, 1917, Beth Sholom Synagogue was incorporated with the mission of furthering the cause of Judaism and to build a synagogue for the congregation in Frederick. [1] The first synagogue was built in Brunswick, Maryland, the same year. [2]