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The Temple (formally, the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 1589 Peachtree Street NE, in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. The oldest Jewish congregation in Atlanta, it was established in 1860 to serve the needs of German-Jewish immigrants.
Feldman remained with the synagogue for 39 years until his retirement in 1991. His son, Ilan D. Feldman, took over as rabbi, and is currently the spiritual leader of Beth Jacob. [5] [4] Because of the influence and activity of Beth Jacob in the Jewish life of Atlanta, a large number of Jews moved into the area along LaVista Road.
In the late 1950s Irving F. Reichert served as Temple Judea's part-time rabbi for three years. [8]: 320 Reichert had formerly served as rabbi of Tremont Temple/Scarsdale Synagogue in the Bronx from 1923 to 1930, and San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El from 1930 to 1947, before retiring from the pulpit at age 53.
As a Kulanu synagogue, Temple Sinai will learn how to have critical conversations about antisemitism and to cultivate tools to fight bigotry and hate.
Congregation B'nai Torah is a Conservative synagogue located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, in the United States. [1] [2] It was founded in 1981 by young, unaffiliated Jews who had attended the Hillel High holiday services at Emory University since the 1970s. [3]
Rabbi Sol Roth assumed the leadership of the synagogue in 1986. [6] Rabbi Yaakov Kermaier assumed leadership of the synagogue in 2003 and made aliyah with his family in 2015. Rabbi Eli Babich, who was the associate Rabbi of Fifth Avenue Synagogue since 2013, was named the head Rabbi in 2019. The Chazzan is the noted cantor Joseph Malovany.
By 1975, many of the members of the congregation had moved to Montgomery County, Maryland, and only one-fifth of the seats in the sanctuary were filled for Shabbat services. [20] The congregation's leadership decided to build a chapel and a religious school on Seven Locks Road in Potomac. [20] [21] It was considered a branch synagogue. [20]
Congregation Mickve Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "Congregation for the Hope of Israel") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 20 East Gordon Street, [a] Monterey Square, in Savannah, Georgia, in the United States. The site also contains a Jewish history museum.