Ann Arbor's Jewish community also grew after the turn of the 20th century, and its first and oldest synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation, was established in 1916.

A small downtown grew near the railroad and the White Horse Pike and eight churches and a synagogue were built.

Kornheiser grew up in a Jewish household, and celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at a Conservative synagogue.

As soon as those words were mentioned, I immediately thought of the synagogue in the town of Palm Springs, California where I grew up.

As the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community grew and moved out of the City and East End of London to the West End and the suburbs, members demanded a new synagogue be built in the West End.

Argov grew up singing in his synagogue with a very defined Middle Eastern melisma.

The Kurdish Muslim Saladin retook Hebron in 1187 – again with Jewish assistance according to one late tradition, in exchange for a letter of security allowing them to return to the city and build a synagogue there.

Sosthenes ( Greek, " safe in strength ") was the chief ruler of the synagogue at Corinth, who, according to the New Testament, was seized and beaten by the mob in the presence of Gallio, the Roman governor, when he refused to proceed against Paul at the instigation of the Jews ( Acts 18: 12-17 ).

49a, and חיצונים according to its Aramaic equivalent ברייתא ; so that Akiva's utterance reads, " He who reads aloud in the synagogue from books not belonging to the canon as if they were canonical ," etc.

The first homage is paid on Thursday in the synagogue, the event being announced by trumpets, and every one sends presents to the exilarch according to his means.

* The 72 old men of the synagogue, according to the Zohar.

A fire in 1805 burnt down the old synagogue and a new one was established more according to tradition to replace it.

Dress in a synagogue and, according to many, in public should be comparable to that worn by the community when meeting royalty or government.

The center of his work was Capernaum, a small town ( about 500 by 350 meters, with a population of 1, 500-2, 000 ) where, according to the Gospels, he appeared at the town's synagogue ( a non-sacred meeting house where Jews would often gather on the Sabbath to study the Torah ), and performed a public reading of scripture, but was met with rejection.

Correctly interpreted it refers to the repeating of " Kaddish " and " Barechu " at the synagogue for the benefit of late comers, and declares that in Israel such a repetition is permitted only when seven ( according to others, when six ) men are present who have not yet heard these responsive readings.

No explicit regulations are expressed in the bible concerning the treatment of a corpse itself, although historic rabbinical sources saw an implication that the dead should be thoroughly washed, in the from Ecclesiastes, as children are washed when born ; according to Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi, a prominent rishon, argued that the corpse should be cleansed carefully, including the ears and fingers, with nails pared and hair combed, so that the corpse could be laid to rest in the manner that the person had visited the synagogue during life.

All this, according to his confession, Móric observed through the keyhole of the synagogue door.

But when he attempted to install a mechitzah, a partition that is used to separate men and women, many of the key synagogue members turned against him.

Among American synagogue members, 27 percent attended Orthodox synagogues.

An active synagogue ( Συναγωγή ) with about 65 members ( who still speak their original Italkian language ) is an integral part of Evraiki currently.

Memphis is home to Temple Israel, a Reform synagogue that has approximately 7, 000 members, making it one of the largest Reform synagogues in the country.

Before leaving, he found a number of pupils for Jules ; the modest earnings from those lessons, supplemented by fees earned by both brothers as members of synagogue choirs, supported them during their studies.

A funeral service was held at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the synagogue to which many members of the Warner family belonged.

In a 1960 attack, the synagogue was fire-bombed, its windows smashed, and two members wounded with a shotgun by a Nazi sympathizer.

A Roman Catholic parish affiliated with the Diocese of Arlington and a Jewish synagogue, which each function as centers for their respective members in the entire Shenandoah Valley, are located approximately north in Winchester.

Miriam and Michael were observant Jews and active members of Philadelphia ’ s first synagogue, Mikveh Israel.

300 to 600 members and two working synagogues, one of which, the 1671 Great Synagogue, is the oldest surviving synagogue in Romania.

After watching The Passion of the Christ, a shameful Kyle suddenly felt that Cartman's anti-Semitism was justified, and suggested to angry members of his synagogue that the Jews apologize for the death of Jesus.

In northern European countries, those who had finished the reading of Deuteronomy made donations to the synagogue, after which the wealthier members of the community would give a dinner for friends and acquaintances.

In Poland it was the custom to sell to the members of the congregation, on the 23nd of Tishri, the privilege of executing various functions during the services on Shabbat and Jewish festivals ; i. e., the synagogue used this occasion as a fund-raiser.

On May 8, 2009, members of the church protested at three Jewish sites in Washington, D. C., including the Anti-Defamation League ( ADL ) offices, the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the city's largest synagogue.

* Congregation, often used as an alternate term for a synagogue or its members in a similar vein as a Christian congregation

Sherman and his wife, who are Jewish, have been members of Valley Beth Shalom-a conservative synagogue in Encino, California-for many years.

They are members of the Chicago synagogue Anshe Sholom B ' nai Israel.

* 2010: The International Rabbinic Fellowship, a fellowship of about 150 Orthodox rabbis, adopted a resolution stating that properly trained Orthodox Jewish women should have the opportunity to serve as " teachers of Torah ", " persons who can answer questions and provide guidance to both men and women in all areas of Jewish law in which they are well-versed ", " clergy who function as pastoral counselors ", " spiritual preachers and guides who teach classes and deliver divrei Torah and derashot, in the synagogue and out, both during the week and on Shabbatot and holidays ", " spiritual guides and mentors helping arrange and managing life-cycle events such as weddings, bar-and bat-mitzvah celebrations and funerals, while refraining from engaging in those aspects of these events that Halakha does not allow for women to take part in " and " presidents and full members of the boards of synagogues and other Torah institutions "; the resolution does not, however, mention whether these women should or can be ordained or what titles they can hold.

The Jewish community in Germany has around 100, 000 registered members ( although far more Jews live in the country without belonging to a synagogue ).

Paul the Apostle's First Letter to the Corinthians (), and the Acts of the Apostles (, ) present the rite of the " Lord's supper " or " breaking of bread " as dating from the very beginning of Christianity, when Christianity was still an entirely Jewish phenomenon, even before Gentiles, initially from among " the God-fearing " ( a term used for Gentiles who attended Jewish synagogue services but held back from becoming full-scale proselytes ), were accepted as members of the Christian community.

In the 1930s, Congregation Emes Wozedek, a synagogue whose members were predominantly Jewish immigrants from Germany, began to use the Audubon Ballroom to conduct its religious services.

For this reason many synagogues issue tickets for attendance and may charge for them: practice varies on whether paid-up synagogue members must also buy these or whether it is included in the subscription.

When the Sefer Torah is carried through the synagogue, the members of the congregation may touch the edge of their tallit to the Sefer Torah and then kiss it as a sign of respect.

The shofar or keren ( horn ) is the only temple instrument still being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur.

In 2000, the NJPS showed that only 33 percent of synagogue-affiliated American Jews belonged to a Conservative synagogue.

A person cannot become Jewish by marrying a Jew, or by joining a synagogue, nor by any degree of involvement in the community or religion, but only by explicitly undertaking intense, formal, and supervised work over years aimed towards that goal.

Of that population of connected Jews, 80 % participated in some sort of Jewish religious observance, but only 48 % belonged to a synagogue, and fewer than 16 % attend regularly.

The conception that in religious matters anyone, however ignorant, can judge for himself, is the direct denial of the old Jewish maxim, ‘ The ignorant cannot be pious ’ ( Avot 2: 5 )… The majority vote of a Board of Directors of a synagogue is, after all, a negligible quantity when it is in opposition to the vote of historical Judaism with its myriad of Saints and thousands of Sages … The sorting, distributing, selecting, harmonizing and completing can only be done by experienced hands.

He is widely respected in Spain and a statue of him was erected in Córdoba in the only synagogue in that city which escaped destruction ; although no longer functioning as a Jewish house of worship, it is open to the public.

In 2010 there was only one synagogue formally linked with Masorti Olami-Dor Chadash in Budapest.

Many secular Jews attend synagogue on Yom Kippur — for many secular Jews the High Holy Days are the only recurring times of the year in which they attend synagogue — causing synagogue attendance to soar.

Synagogues are consecrated spaces that can be used only for the purpose of prayer ; however, a synagogue is not necessary for worship.

The synagogue is located in the quarter of Old Cochin known as Jew Town and is the only one of the seven synagogues in the area still in use.

Cantors have sometimes been the only functionaries of a synagogue, empowered to undertake religio-civil functions like witnessing marriages.

The capital Sofia is the only European city that has peacefully functioning, within less than 100 meters, four Place of worship of the major religions: 1 ) Eastern Orthodox-St Nedelya Church, 2 ) Islam-Banya Bashi Mosque, 3 ) Roman Catholicism-Cathedral of St Joseph, Sofia and 4 ) Orthodox Judaism-Sofia Synagogue, the third largest synagogue in Europe.

The Ioanniotiki Synagogue, situated above the Jewish Community of Athens offices at # 8 Melidoni St., is the only Romaniote synagogue in Athens.

Eric Lucas recalls the destruction of the synagogue that a tiny Jewish community had constructed in a small village only twelve years earlier:

* 1959: The only synagogue was closed by the authorities.

Although Port Gibson no longer has a Jewish community, it boasts the only Moorish Revival building in Mississippi and the oldest synagogue in the state, the Gemiluth Chessed synagogue, built in 1892.

Just south of it, on Pottstown Pike, is Beth Israel Congregation of Chester County ( founded 1904 ), Upper Uwchlan's only synagogue.

It is second only to the Kaddish ( counting all its forms ) as the most frequently recited prayer in current synagogue liturgy.

Though a conforming Jew, and though contributing liberally toward the support of the synagogue, D ' Israeli appears never to have cordially or intimately mixed with the community ; only on one occasion did he serve in a minor office — that of inspector of charity schools in the year 1782.