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Bal Harbour Shops is an open-air shopping mall in Bal Harbour, Florida, an affluent suburb of Miami Beach. With Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue as anchors, the mall had sales of $3,000 per square foot in 2015, ranked among the highest-grossing retail centers in the world.
The Washington D.C. Temple (originally known as the Washington Temple, until 1999), is the 16th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Located in Kensington, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C., and near the Capital Beltway, it was the church's first temple built east of the Mississippi River since the original Nauvoo Temple was completed in 1846.
Many of the Washington area's prominent Jews were among the synagogue's members. That remains true today, as does Adas Israel's status as the capital city's largest Conservative congregation. Today Adas Israel has 1,750 households as members, with almost 500 children enrolled in the religious school and 120 in the nursery school.
Temple Micah was founded as Southwest Hebrew Congregation in 1963 and was initially located in Southwest, D.C. near the Potomac River waterfront. The congregation officially affiliated with the Union for Reform Judaism in 1965. In 1966, the congregation began a 28 year long shared space agreement with St. Augustine's Episcopal Church.
In 1910, six local Jewish merchants organized the Georgetown Hebrew Benevolent Society, which began to conduct religious services above a storefront on M Street, NW. [2] A year later, this kernel, now numbering 50 families, founded Kesher Israel Congregation, [3] which thus became the seventh synagogue organized in the nation's capital.
In 2014, Rabbi Adam Rosenwasser was hired as an associate rabbi. A gay man, Rabbi Rosenwasser was the first rabbi of a DC synagogue to have a spouse of the same sex. [2] In Fall 2023, Temple Sinai built an extension to accommodate the congregation's growing membership. In 2022, the synagogue had 1,140 member families. [3] [4]
Ohev Sholom Congregation advertises itself as a dynamic Orthodox community that values Torah, prayer, and good deeds. The congregation touts its location in NW Washington as easily accessible to surrounding neighborhoods in the District of Columbia and Maryland. The congregation counts in its membership a growing number of working professionals ...
The new building, located at Eighth and Shepherd streets in Petworth, Washington, D.C., was dedicated on August 14, 1938, [16] and served the community for 18 years. [ 17 ] Shepherd Park