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Beth Jacob Congregation is an Orthodox synagogue, located at 9030 on West Olympic Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California, in the United States. It is the largest Orthodox synagogue in the Western United States. [1]
Frank Taffel (né Shrage Fyvel Tafel, Krystynopol, then Galicia, Austria-Hungary, now Chervonohrad, Ukraine, March 10, 1877; died 7 July 1947, Savannah, Georgia, age 70) was a journalist, a founder of Congregation Beth Jacob (Atlanta), and an advocate of Jewish causes.
Oakland is a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. ... Beth Jacob Congregation, Modern Orthodox Judaism ...
Founded in 1875 as the First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland, Temple Sinai is the oldest synagogue in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. [9] [10] It grew out of Oakland's Hebrew Benevolent Society, which had been organized in 1862 by eighteen merchants and shopkeepers from several foreign countries—predominantly Polish Jews from Poznań. [18]
Temple Beth Am was founded in 1935 as the Olympic Jewish Center. [2] It is the third oldest Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles. [3] Jacob Pressman served as its rabbi from 1950 to 1985. [2] [4] Under his leadership, the synagogue took its current name, Temple Beth Am in 1957. [2]
Beth Jacob Congregation's membership had decreased over the years, and it was at about 500 in 2007, most of whom were age 75 or older. In a vote whether to go forward with the merger, 87 percent of Beth Jacob Congregation's members voted in favor. The merger happened in August 2007. Rabbi Newman decided to start a new congregation called Kehal ...
The name Bais Yaakov comes from a verse in the Book of Exodus in which the expression "House of Jacob" is understood by Jewish commentaries on the Bible to refer to the female segment of the Jewish nation: Moses is instructed to "say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel", where the parallel expressions are interpreted as referring respectively to the female and male segments.
Rebbetzin Bruria David (Hebrew: ברוריה דייוויד; 1938 – April 9, 2023 (19 Nissan 5783)) was an American-born Israeli Haredi Jewish rebbetzin and Torah scholar. . She was the founder and dean of Beth Jacob Jerusalem (commonly known as BJJ), a prestigious Haredi religious girls seminary located in the Unsdorf neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel.