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The Baltimore Hebrew Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 7401 Park Heights Avenue, in Pikesville, on the border of Baltimore City and Baltimore County, Maryland, in the United States.
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Synagogue is an historic former Reform Jewish synagogue building located in the Madison Park neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. The former synagogue, built as an early place of worship of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation , is built of ashlar gray granite from Port Deposit .
Congregation Shearith Israel (Hebrew: קהילת שארית ישראל דבאלטימאר; nicknamed The Glen Avenue Shul) is a historic Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 5835 Park Heights Avenue, in Park Heights, northwest Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States.
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, this may possibly have been the beginning of the congregation Nidche Israel, later known as the "Baltimore Hebrew Congregation," or as the "Stadt-Schul", probably because almost simultaneously with its origin another settlement of Jews, at Fell's Point – an outlying and at first separate district ...
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, incorporated in 1830, is the oldest congregation in Maryland. Congregation Shearith Israel (Baltimore, Maryland), founded 1851, remaining Orthodox since its founding. Lloyd Street Synagogue, located in Baltimore, is the oldest synagogue building in Maryland. [5]
The Lloyd Street Synagogue was built by the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, incorporated on January 29, 1830, [3] as Nidche Yisroel. [4] For the first fifteen years of its existence, services were held in a small room above a local grocery store.
Hochheimer was elected rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland, in October 1849, shortly after he landed in New York City. His inaugural sermon was translated and published by Isaac Leeser in The Occident and American Jewish Advocate. He served as rabbi in the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation for the next ten years. [3]
In 1891, Guttmacher was named rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as rabbi there until his death. Shortly after arriving in Baltimore, he also began studying Hebrew, Arabic, and the history of philosophy at the Semitic Department of Johns Hopkins University. He received a Ph.D. from there in 1900, and ...