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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.
Ilan Daniel Feldman is an American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, [2] public speaker and author. Since 1991 he has been the senior rabbi and spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta, Georgia, succeeding his father, Emanuel Feldman, who founded and led the congregation for 39 years. [3]
In 1924 he founded Atlanta's Fulton Auto Exchange, which rebuilt and sold used trucks, and he was also a commodities speculator. Taffel was a founder of Congregation Beth Jacob (Atlanta), and was one of eleven petitioners for the original charter. [1] The Frank Taffel Sanctuary is named in his honor.
The first two known Jewish settlers, Jacob Haas and Henry Levi, opened a store together in 1846. [1] By 1850, 10% of Atlanta stores were run by Jews, who only made up 1% of the population [3] and largely worked in retail, especially in the sale of clothing and dry goods. Many early Jewish settlers, however, did not end up settling permanently ...
As of July 1, 2014, the school officially merged with the modern Orthodox high school, Yeshiva Atlanta, founded in 1971, and the combined school is called Atlanta Jewish Academy. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] In November 2017 it had a ribbon cutting for the opening of a $9 million, 19,000-square-foot (1,800 m 2 ) addition to its Northland Drive campus in Sandy ...
The day after the bombing, Atlanta Constitution editor and civil rights advocate Ralph McGill tied the bombing to the ongoing civil rights movement in a Pulitzer Prize-winning [2] [3] editorial, "A Church, A School..." Jacob Rothschild, the temple's rabbi since 1946, [4] was a highly visible and early [4] advocate of civil rights and ...
Pages in category "Jews and Judaism in Atlanta" ... History of the Jews in Atlanta; 0–9. 1950s synagogue bombings ... The Atlanta Jewish Times; B. Congregation Beth ...
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.