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The synagogue is home to a 300-household congregation with Shabbat and holiday services, a playschool for children 18 months to 5 years old, a Hebrew school for early childhood learning through high school students, adult education, social and communal activities, impactful social action, and engaging intergenerational programs.
[18] The congregation held its first religious services in the new building on September 14, 1954. [19] The new building had seating for 2,000 worshippers. [19] At one point, the Hebrew school had more than 400 students.
The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) or Young Israel (in Hebrew: ישראל הצעיר , Yisrael Hatza'ir), is a synagogue-based Orthodox Judaism organization in the United States with a network of affiliated "Young Israel" synagogues. Young Israel was founded in 1912, in its earliest form, by a group of 15 young Jews on the Lower ...
Jewish education has been valued since the birth of Judaism.In the Hebrew Bible Abraham is lauded for instructing his offspring in God's ways. [3] One of the basic duties of Jewish parents is to provide for the instruction of their children as set forth in the first paragraph of the Shema Yisrael prayer: “Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.
The Maghen Abraham Synagogue (Arabic: كنيس ماغين أبراهام, romanized: Kanīs Mā'ghīn Abrā'hām; Hebrew: בית הכנסת מגן אברהם, romanized: Beth HaKenesset Magen Avraham) is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Jewish district of Wadi Abu Jamil in downtown Beirut, Lebanon.
Children begin their religious education early, often attending kheder or Talmud Torah to learn Jewish traditions, the Hebrew language, and the Torah. The Bar Mitzvah for boys at age 13, and the Bat Mitzvah for girls at age 12 or 13, marks the transition into religious adulthood.
In 1997, the congregation celebrated its 25th anniversary. At that time, it had 250 members (not including children) with 90% of them being LGBT and its oldest member being 87 years old. [13] Janet Marder was the congregation's first rabbi. [14] Lisa Ann Edwards later served as a student rabbi under their first full-time rabbi, Denise Eger. [15]
Congregation Rodeph Sholom is a Reform Jewish synagogue at 7 West 83rd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York. Founded in 1842 by German Jewish immigrants, it is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States .