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Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, California is one of the three oldest Jewish congregations in California, [a] and one of the largest Jewish congregations in the United States. A member of the Union for Reform Judaism , Congregation Emanu-El is a significant gathering place for the Bay Area Jewish community.
Congregation Emanu-El on Sutter Street (1866–1926), San Francisco. The history of the Jews in San Francisco began with the California Gold Rush in the second half of the 19th-century. The San Francisco Bay Area has the fourth largest Jewish population in the U.S. [1] behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles.
In typical fashion they split almost immediately, forming not one but two synagogues: Congregation Sherith Israel followed the minhag Polen, the traditions of Jews from Posen in Prussia, while Congregation Emanu-El chose to worship according to the German practices of Jews from Bavaria. The synagogues have been friendly neighbors ever since.
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Temple Emanu-El dates back to 1938 when 35 Jewish families on Oahu formed the Honolulu Jewish Community. In 1939, in cooperation with the Jewish Welfare Board, a small chapel on Young Street was leased and converted into a Jewish Community Center (JCC), which also served as Honolulu's first permanent synagogue.
Home of Peace Cemetery, also known as Navai Shalome, [1] is a Jewish cemetery established in 1889, and is located at 1299 El Camino Real in Colma, California. [2] The cemetery contains the Emanu-El Mausoleum, owned by and serving the Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco. [3]
Temple Beth-El (New York City), Upper East Side, Manhattan; Temple Emanu-El (New York, 1868), Upper East Side, Manhattan; Chevro Ahavath Zion Synagogue, Monticello; Temple Beith Israel, Niagara Falls; Temple B'Nai Israel, Olean; Tefereth Israel Anshei Parksville Synagogue, Parkville; Temple Beth El, Poughkeepsie, now Poughkeepsie Meeting House
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