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Stephen Wise Temple is a large Reform Jewish congregation in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the United States. Founded in 1964 by the late Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin , with 35 families, the congregation grew rapidly.
North Country Reform Temple, Glen Cove; Temple Beth-El, Great Neck; ... Congregation of Georgian Jews, Forest Hills; Queens Jewish Center, Forest Hills;
Two dynamic rabbis hastened the move toward Reform: Rabbi Henry Vidaver (1873–1882) and Rabbi Jacob Nieto (1893–1930). In 1903, as ground was broken for the current site on California Street, Congregation Sherith Israel made these changes official and joined the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, now known as the Union for Reform ...
The congregation was founded in 1882 as the Reform congregation, "Temple Gates of Hope", by a group of German Jews. [2] After several mergers, the congregation took the Hebrew name "Agudat Yesharim", and later petitioned the state of New York to change the official name of the congregation to "Park Avenue Synagogue" in 1923.
In 2013, Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel appointed Dr. Tal Sessler as Senior Rabbi. Rabbi Dr. Sessler formerly served as the Rabbi of Freehold Jewish Center in New Jersey, and earlier as the Rabbi of the Jewish Center of Forest Hills West in New York. [9] Rabbi Sessler left the Temple in May 2021. [10] Rabbi Refael Cohen is the current Senior ...
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple, known from 1862 to 1933 as Congregation B'nai B'rith, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard, in the Wilshire Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
The Congregation of Georgian Jews is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 6304 Yellowstone Boulevard, in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York, United States. The members of the congregation are predominately late twentieth century immigrants from the Republic of Georgia.
Temple Judea was founded in 1953, the first Reform synagogue built in San Francisco in almost 125 years. Its first rabbi was Robert W. Shapiro, and he was succeeded by Irving Reichert and then Herbert Morris in 1962.