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The congregation was founded in 1856 and erected its first synagogue building in 1858 "in Judah’s Block (East Washington Street), opposite the Court House." [ 3 ] This early building was replaced with the building at 435 East Market Street in 1868, [ 4 ] and the Tenth Street Temple in 1899.
Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation; Temple Israel (Lafayette, Indiana) This page was last edited on 26 August 2021, at 10:56 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
In 1904, he was named associate rabbi of Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation in Indianapolis, under Rabbi Mayer Messing. When Messing retired in 1907, he became the congregation's main rabbi. [ 3 ] Shortly after becoming rabbi at Lafayette, he began post-graduate studies on Semitics in the University of Chicago under Emil G. Hirsch .
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Beth El's first rabbi was Maurice I. Kliers, who served from 1948 to 1950, when he left to join South Side Hebrew Congregation in Chicago. Philip L. Lipis, a US Navy chaplain during World War II, joined Beth El in 1951. Rabbi Lipis oversaw the rapid growth in membership and the physical expansion of the synagogue's facilities.
The congregation was the oldest Jewish congregation in the Cleveland area through mid-2024. [1] The congregation's membership exceeded 2,000 families in the mid-1990s. [2] The synagogue was a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. On 1 July 2024, Fairmount Temple merged with Temple Tifereth-Israel to create a new Reform congregation, Mishkan ...
The synagogue has long welcomed prominent leaders to address its congregation. Former prime minister of Israel Shimon Peres spoke at the synagogue on May 3, 1997. [10] Congregation Beth T'fillah of Overbrook Park merged with Adath Israel in 2006. [11] Suburban Jewish Community Center-Bnai Aaron in Havertown closed in 2010 and merged with Adath ...
The Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation purchased the building in 1973, as the church faced a dwindling congregation and increasing costs, and the building became a synagogue. The Hebrew Tabernacle Congregation, founded in 1905 in Harlem by German-Jewish founders, had outgrown its 1920s building on West 161st Street between Broadway and Fort ...