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Earth Market Street, Kaifeng, 1910. The synagogue lay beyond the row of stores on the right. From the 17th century, further assimilation had begun to erode these traditions as the rate of intermarriage between Jews and other ethnic groups such as the Han Chinese increased. With some Kaifeng families, Muslim men did marry their Jewish women, but ...
The Queens Jewish Center, also known as Queens Jewish Center and Talmud Torah or QJC, is an Orthodox synagogue in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue was established by a dozen families in 1943 to serve the growing central Queens Jewish community. [2] The current spiritual leader is Rabbi Judah Kerbel.
The Temple Society of Concord, commonly referred to as Temple Concord, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 450 Kimber Road, in Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, in the United States. [2] Established in 1839, it is the ninth-oldest active Jewish congregation in the United States.
Congregation Etz Hayim at Hollis Hills Bayside is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located in the neighborhood of Hollis Hills in Queens, New York City, New York, United States. The congregation was formed through a May 2021 consolidation of the Hollis Hills Bayside Jewish Center and the Marathon Jewish Community Center.
Congregation Talmud Torah Adereth El, abbreviated as Adereth El, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 133 East 29th Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1857, it claims to be the oldest synagogue in its original location with continuous services at the same location.
The synagogue project was initiated by philanthropist Edmond Safra before his death in 1999, and dedicated in 2003. Safra's goal was to have a Sephardic synagogue on Manhattan's Upper East Side. [4] During his lifetime, Edmond J. Safra was often in New York City and spent many Shabbats in Manhattan. Noting the absence of a formal synagogue and ...
The congregation, originally founded as an Orthodox synagogue, [1] acquired a synagogue building at 221 East 51st Street from Congregation Orach Chaim in 1906. [ 1 ] On January 24, 1965, Sutton Place Synagogue announced plans for the construction of a Jewish Center for the United Nations, complementing similar religious centers near the UN ...
The synagogue of the Kaifeng Jewish community (reportedly dating from 1163) was destroyed, and the Jews took refuge on the north side of the Yellow River. They took with them the Torah scrolls, which had been saved after having been thrown into the river, though they had grown moldy and illegible.