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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.
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. Eventually, this led to the establishment of five other Jewish congregations nearby as well as an Orthodox high school for girls (Temima) and Yeshiva Ohr Yisrael, an Orthodox high school for boys.
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]
He was defeated by Maynard Jackson during his 1973 re-election bid, who became Atlanta's first black mayor, and Massell is the last white mayor of Atlanta to date. [ 21 ] During and in a short period following the Six-Day War , the 16,000 person Atlanta Jewish community managed to raise $1.5 million, which today would be over $11 million ...
Rosenberg, Adolph, "Dynamite Bomb Damages Atlanta Temple; Shocks City, State, and Nation into Action" Southern Israelite, October 17, 1958. Webb, Clive. "Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause." Southern Spaces 22 June 2009.
Synagogues on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state) (4 P) Pages in category "Synagogues in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
A historic Brooklyn synagogue that serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement was trashed this week during an unusual community dispute that began with the discovery of a ...
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 ...