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The building was constructed by the Adas Israel Congregation and dedicated on January 8, 1908, near what was then the main commercial district in town and the center of the Jewish community in Washington. In 1951 the congregation moved to a new building on Connecticut Avenue and sold its building on the corner of 6th and I Streets, NW to the ...
This merges the earlier Temple Emanu-El (who founded the state's first synagogue, opened September 12, 1892) and Keneseth Israel [1]: 14–15 Congregation Beth Sholom, Richland. Originally (1950) Richland Jewish Congregation, took current name 1957 [1]: 71 Congregation B'nai Torah, Olympia [1]: 91
Unaffiliated synagogues in Washington, D.C. (4 P) Pages in category "Synagogues in Washington, D.C." The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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]
Bet Mishpachah was founded in 1975, as the Metropolitan Community Temple Mishpocheh.At first, its members were all men, and it later had woman as members too. [4] In 1976, it hosted the First International Conference of Gay & Lesbian Jews, which was organized in response to the United Nations resolution equating Zionism with racism, in an effort to create a forum for communications and mutual ...
In 2017, 7% of Jewish adults in the Metro DC Jewish community identified as LGBT and 7% identified as Jews of color or Hispanic/Latino Jews (12,200 people). 9% of Jewish households in the region include a person of color, whether Jewish or non-Jewish. The majority of the DC region's Jews of color, three out of ten, live within Washington, D.C. [20]
In 1852, twenty-one Washingtonian Jews established the Washington Hebrew Congregation, and in 1863, after an Act of Congress that certified the Jewish community's right to own property, they purchased a church at 8th and H Streets, NW, and after renovations, opened it as the city's first synagogue. East European immigrants arriving in the early ...
K'hal Adath Jeshurun, Washington Heights; Mount Sinai Jewish Center, Washington Heights; In Queens. Astoria Center of Israel, Astoria; Congregation Etz Hayim at Hollis Hills Bayside, Bayside; Congregation Tifereth Israel, Corona; Free Synagogue of Flushing, Flushing; Congregation of Georgian Jews, Forest Hills; Queens Jewish Center, Forest Hills