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Temple Beth-El (Hebrew: ק.ק. בית אל) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 800 North Palafox Street, in downtown Pensacola, Florida, in the United States. Founded in 1876, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in Florida. [1]
The Shul of Bal Harbour is a Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Surfside, in the Miami-Dade County of South Florida, in the United States. In 2009, the congregation was named by Newsweek as one of America's 25 most vibrant congregations.
Congregation Ahavath Chesed, also called The Temple Jacksonville, or simply, The Temple, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 8727 San Jose Boulevard, in Jacksonville, Florida, in the United States. It is one of the oldest Jewish congregation in Florida and one of the first formally incorporated.
Pages in category "Torah cities" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abila (Peraea) Admah;
“The importance of this site cannot be overstated,” Sara Ayers-Rigsby, southeast director for the Florida Public Archaeology Network, which is based at West Florida University in Pensacola ...
Temple Beth Sholom (transliterated from Hebrew as "House of Peace") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4144 Chase Avenue, on Miami Beach, Florida, in the United States. It is the largest and oldest congregation [ clarification needed ] [ when? ] [ where? ] with 1210 member households. [ 1 ]
A synagogue always contains a Torah ark where the Torah scrolls are kept, called the aron qodesh (Hebrew: אָרוֹן קׄדֶש) by Ashkenazi Jews and the hekhal by Sephardic Jews. Synagogues are buildings for congregational worship, and thus require a large central space (as do churches and mosques ).
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. ( August 2008 ) A mechitza (halachik wall) together with an eruv chatzerot ( Hebrew : עירוב חצרות ), commonly known in English as a community eruv , is a symbolic boundary that allows Jews who observe the religious rules concerning Shabbat to carry certain items outside of ...