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Congregation Beth Jacob is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 1855 Lavista Road in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is Atlanta's largest Orthodox congregation. It is Atlanta's largest Orthodox congregation.
Taffel, son of Jacob Tafel, a dairy farmer, and Esther Verner, emigrated from Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now part of Ukraine), entered the US from Montreal 1907, and became a US citizen, June 26, 1922. In 1924 he founded Atlanta's Fulton Auto Exchange, which rebuilt and sold used trucks, and he was also a commodities speculator.
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 ...
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]
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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 ...
Emanuel Feldman (born August 26, 1927) [2] is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rabbi emeritus of Congregation Beth Jacob of Atlanta, Georgia.During his nearly 40 years as a congregational rabbi, he oversaw the growth of the Orthodox community in Atlanta from a community small enough to support two small Orthodox synagogues [2] (and one nominally Orthodox one, Shearith Israel, which eventually ...