Sentences with phrase «first synagogues»

Others, beckoned by the allures of liberty, proudly founded the first synagogues on American soil and thereby entrenched a tradition of religious diversity in American life.

The city has a Jewish community of more than 100,000 and a long history: the first synagogue here was founded in 1768.

You can check out the collection of historic Victorian homes and the city's first synagogue, Heritage park is a unique place to visit in San Diego.

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It was a different world then, I realize: The Marxists I knew were happily married to their first wives, gave their kids curfews and chores, and a few even went to church or synagogue.

The church is closely related to synagogue, should we stop meeting together because the Jews did it first?

The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, which represents the 1.5 million Conservative Jews in the United States, has just issued a new Torah and commentary, the first for Conservatives in more than 60 years.

The occasion of my first encounter with the theology of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik was a reading group at my wife's synagogue.

Coming to Nazareth, Luke says, Jesus went to the synagogue on the Sabbath and «stood up to read»; and, being given a scroll of the book of Isaiah, he opened it at the beginning of chapter 61 and read the first verse and part of the second.

In place of the synagogue came the church; in place of circumcision came baptism; in place of the temple altars came the acceptance of Christ's sacrifice in the Lord's Supper; and while only the first suggestions of the early Catholic rubric are within the canon, these suggestions are there, presaging, as they are seen in retrospect, the repetition of all the good and evil fortunes that in every age and faith have attended sacramentalism.

Many a problem of inherited ritual the first Christians sloughed off in leaving the temple and synagogue, but many new ones faced them as soon as they inaugurated what the Epistle to the Hebrews called, «our own assembling together.»

We are likewise learning more about first century religion in Palestine — as, for example, about the place of synagogue, Torah, temple and sacrifice; the meaning of the terms «Pharisee,» «Essene,» «Sadducee,» «apocalyptist»; the nature of Judaism and of rabbinic teaching.

The early Christian movement spread first of all in the synagogue and derived its earliest forms and practices from it before being eventually cast out to live an independent existence.

The officials of the synagogue were at first undecided in their reaction to Paul, but they permitted him to speak again on the next sabbath.

I am intrigued about your blog on the history of buildings becoming the center of worship — «The Synagogue Was The First Church Building.»

But Benedict also last year became the first pope to visit Rome's main synagogue since 1986, trying to smooth feathers on an annual «Day of Dialogue» with the Jewish community.

The gradual dilution of sustained religious catechism in churches and synagogues means that young people often make their first serious contact with the claims of religion not in the presence or a committed pastor, rabbi or parish priest, but in the...

Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of Paul.

First, he was engaged upon a broad appeal to the public, by way of addresses in synagogues, preaching in the open air, teaching when he could find an audience willing to listen, and discussion with members of the public who wished to raise questions.

Why do you talk about only what he didn't menage to do, or what was wrong in his pontificate?Yes, I agree there were many things that could have been resolved in better way, but he was only a human and as everybody could make mistakes.To me what is important in his pontificate is that he was a first pope who «opened «the church to people, who travelled a lot, met with people, went to synagogue, did much to abolish communism.Sure, he wasn't ideal, but for me the best pope so far.

In the first place he effected a virtually complete separation of the Christian Church from the Jewish synagogue.

First, Fr Kocik writes: «In the course of my work I visited no temple, mosque, or synagogue nor did I interview Hindu gurus, Confucian sages, or Pentecostal preachers» (p9).

He went to the synagogue first thing in the morning to teach, and any of you who have done much teaching knows that it takes a lot out of you.

The books of Judith, Tobit, Wisdom, Sirach, First and Second Maccabees, above all the Psalms in their final revision, and the great prayers of the Synagogue, the primitive Kaddish and the ancient Palestinian recension of the Shemoneh Esreh, echoing in almost every line the thought of the Psalter and the Second Isaiah — it is here that we feel the vital pulse - beat of genuine Judaism.

Thus in the first exorcism (Mark 1:21 - 28) Myers stresses that Jesus has invaded the space (synagogue) and time (Sabbath) of the scribes.

This expanded Synagogue Bible served as the first Scripture of the early Church.

January 2012 — The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis.

As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

«My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire... Second, that all their books — their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible — be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted... Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country... Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name of God within our hearing.

When he announced the purpose of his mission in Nazareth's synagogue, he read from the prophet's sixty - first chapter, (Luke 4:16 ff.)

There are the signs of the zodiac in the mosaic floors of some synagogues, though those are later than the first century.

If they hold a Seder in their homes on the first night of the Passover, or take their families to a synagogue on the Day of Atonement, it is only because they feel that it won't do the children any harm, and may even do them a mite of good, to be exposed to a sentimental observance of old folk customs that are part of their heritage.

Did they meet in Christian homes; or as the first Christians were converts from Judaism, did they organize themselves into synagogues led by elders?

When Jewish resistance turned to fierce opposition on the missionary journey to the synagogues of Asia Minor, Paul and Barnabas finally announced to their Jewish compatriots the following decision, which had such momentous results: «It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you.

I was asked if I believed that - as a matter of fact a reporter asked me that, and it was the first question asked me at the synagogue - my answer.

In the Christian thinking of the first century, therefore, the liberation of church from synagogue inaugurated a new era; the apologetic necessity of being persuasive to Gentiles overbore the tendency to be content with Hebraisms; and even in the New Testament, predominantly Jewish though it is in its backgrounds, one sees the beginning of that larger mental hospitality which led at last to the overwhelming influence of Greek thought on Christian theology.

If you wish to visit a synagogue, you should probably call first and also understand that there is usually separate seating for men and women.

His first sermon in his home synagogue ends with his own community trying to kill him (Luke 4).

When we examine a first - century synagogue today, we can't tell if it's a place that Jesus» followers would have attended or not.

The first century conflict between church and synagogue was hardly incidental.

When Paul first arrived in Corinth, he had gone, as his custom was, to the synagogue to declare the gospel first to the Jews.

Maybe that's the kind of rapt attention those first - century synagogue worshipers in Capernaum experienced as they listened to Jesus preach.

The rector, seated like a rabbi in a first - century synagogue, preaches on the texts.

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I attended my niece's Bat Mitzvah (my first experience in a synagogue) and it was a truly mind blowing and moving experience.

By the mid-1960s demand for a local synagogue grew and in 1968, Congregation Beth Judea held its first high holy days services in Mt. Prospect.

A little march to and rally outside where he was staying, in support of the action being taken to preserve the eight indigenous ethnic groups, the small but very ancient and entrenched Jewish community, the Gulf's only synagogue and Jewish cemetery, the black community that is part of the East African diaspora, the fifth of the population that is non-Muslim, the half of that fifth which is Christian, the strictly optional status of the women's headscarf, the Sunni third of Bahraini Muslims, the requirement that all legislation be approved by both Houses of Parliament, the election of the Lower House by universal suffrage, the regular appointment of women to the Upper House to make up for their dearth in the elected Lower House, the presence in the Upper House of a Jewish man and a Christian woman (the latter the first woman ever to chair a Parliament in the Arab world), the present position of a Jewish woman as Ambassador to the United States, the very close ties to Britain, and the fact that all of this is perfectly acceptable even to Salafi Members of Parliament.

«The people who first reported this to us were individuals who walk by... on the way to synagogue on Shabbos, and they were the ones who saw something that looked wrong to them,» state Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D - Brooklyn) said Sunday.

MOUNT VERNON, NY — Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) hosted his first «Fleetwood Senior» meeting of 2014 this afternoon at the Sinai Free Synagogue.

My fear is that the first Anglican church, synagogue or mosque that says, «It offends our principles and the basic tenets of our religion's faith», will be countered by the zealots of Stonewall moving in, saying, «We're going to sue under the Equalities Act and the Human Rights Act».

As faith and community leaders across the nation speak out during the third annual weekend event, First Lady McCray will address a mosque in the Bronx, a synagogue in Manhattan, and two prominent churches in Brooklyn and Manhattan.