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Central Synagogue (formerly Congregation Ahawath Chesed Shaar Hashomayim; colloquially Central) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue at 652 Lexington Avenue, at the corner with 55th Street, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The current congregation was formed in 1898 through the merger of two 19th-century ...
In 2013, Buchdahl was named the Senior Rabbi of the Central Synagogue. [18] [19] She is the first woman and the first Asian-American to be their Senior Rabbi. [18] [19] On July 1, 2014, Buchdahl succeeded Peter Rubinstein as Senior Rabbi at Central Synagogue. She is the first woman and first East Asian-American to hold the post in the Synagogue ...
Michael Strassfeld is an American rabbi. Strassfeld was rabbi of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism , a Manhattan synagogue. [ 1 ] Before that he was the rabbi of Congregation Ansche Chesed.
The New York City synagogue that she led for 32 years — Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in midtown Manhattan — will have to grapple with its identity after being defined by its celebrity rabbi ...
NEW YORK — One of the wannabe Nazis busted for allegedly plotting to shoot up a city synagogue is Jewish and his grandfather survived the Holocaust, prosecutors and relatives said Sunday.
Congregation Beth Israel, commonly referred to as the West Side Jewish Center or, in more recent years, the Hudson Yards Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 347 West 34th Street, in the Garment District of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, [1] [3] in the United States.
During his visit to Israel, Rabbi Michael Ross bore witness to the pain and tragedy of the Oct. 7 Israel-Hamas War. Voices of Faith: Hudson rabbi shares emotional experience of recent Israeli ...
The first rabbi was Mordecai Kaplan, who left in 1921 because his positions were too reform oriented and radical for the Orthodox congregation. [3] The congregation then hired Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, who later became involved in the founding and support of almost every major Orthodox organization in the United States and abroad, including the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, Agudath Israel ...