Sentences with phrase «old synagogue»

Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans» project was selected from 12 proposals to redesign the grand window, the focal point of the 123 - year - old synagogue, built by the first congregation of Russian Jews in America.

Recently Osterhout purchased an old synagogue for his studio, where he produces magically bizarre sculptures made from the detritus of the constantly failing Catskills and the animal trophies of his hunting.

Passing through the Jewish cemetery, continue your walk towards the Old Synagogue.

The neo-classicist style Old Synagogue, built in 1843, is now a cultural center.

We definitely recommend visiting the Old Synagogue, one of the country's oldest surviving examples of Jewish religious architecture.

Embark on a walking tour of Fort Kochi, including the fish market; the Dutch Palace; and the Jewish Quarter, with its 400 - year - old synagogue.

The 5 - year - old synagogue then had only about 350 families, he said.

But where can an Eastern European Jew go to taste the old food and sing the old songs and pray in the old synagogues?

DJERBA, Tunisia (Reuters)- Africa's oldest synagogue is playing host to that rarity in the Arab world - a religious gathering of hundreds of Jews drawn from Europe and Israel.

Greene recounts the 1958 bombing of the oldest synagogue in Atlanta, «The Temple,» targeted by white supremacists who were upset by the rabbi presiding there, Jacob Rothschild, and his liberal views on civil rights.

This is the oldest synagogue in Europe, where generations have been worshipping since 1270.

The synagogue, which dates from 1833, is the oldest synagogue in continuous use in all of North America.

Visit the old Jewish cemetery and the Old New Synagogue (the oldest synagogue is central and eastern Europe).

On Nevis, some of the most intriguing spots include Alexander Hamilton's birthplace, a Jewish Cemetery containing gravestones dating from 1679 to 1768, and the ruins of what is thought to be the oldest synagogue in the Caribbean.

For religious ceremonies, the island has a number of majestic parish churches and is home to the oldest synagogue in the western hemisphere.

Rhode Island has since been known as a state for religious freedom and boasts the (actual) First Baptist Church in the U.S. in Providence and one of the oldest synagogues, Touro Synagogue, in Newport.

Not exact matches

It must be an old tradition though because allegedly Jesus made a comment about praying on street corners:» «And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.

Seventh, Levi has to stand up in front of all the other followers and confess that he is leaving his old sins and his old friends, and is now going to read his Bible and pray every single day, memorize verses, and attend synagogue services every week.

Hearing his stirring words in the synagogue, his old neighbors approve of him, are proud of him and wonder at the grace of his speech.

Many commentators think that Jesus» withdrawal from the synagogue at this point marked his abandonment of the old Israel and his inauguration of the new Israel through the church.

I thought: He is «not now that strength which in old days moved heaven and earth,» when, for several years, he accompanied his old blind father to the synagogue and, for an hour, whispered in his ear every word of the prayers the old man did not know by heart, then going off to another service to fulfill his own duty to pray.

At the beginning, their «psalms and hymns and spiritual songs» (Colossians 3:16: Ephesians 5:19) were probably taken over and adapted from the older heritage, and while the evidence on this matter is scant, the devotional services of the early churches doubtless leaned heavily on the Old Testament, especially the Psalter, and even on the customs of the synagogue.

Further Voobus points out that it was neither the Greek Old Testament which became scriptural authority for Hellenistic Christianity nor the Hebrew original text which was translated into Syriac but the scriptures of the Palestinian synagogue, namely, the ancient Palestinian Targumim which came to be used among the Jewish Christians.

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.

Herzfeld - who is the rabbi of Ohev Sholom, The National Synagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C. - says that according to the Talmud, «God does not rejoice with the fall of the wickeSynagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C. - says that according to the Talmud, «God does not rejoice with the fall of the wickesynagogue in Washington, D.C. - says that according to the Talmud, «God does not rejoice with the fall of the wicked.»

Although Jesus heals this daughter of the promise in a synagogue, and although she is said to respond with praise, her voice is lost in the recorded testimony Like the old prophet Anna in the temple (Luke 2:38), «certain women» who gathered in prayer before Pentecost (Acts 1:14), or the four daughters of Philip who have the gift of prophecy (Acts 21:9), the woman of Luke 13 is not heard.

On the other hand, he has poignantly elegized Jewish martyrdom while condemning Nazism, declared at the synagogue of Rome that the Jews are the legitimate and honored older brothers of Catholics, stated on the 20th anniversary of Nostra Aetate that «anti-Semitism, in its ugly and sometimes violent manifestations, must be completely eradicated» and, after months of equivocation, indicated that he would like the Carmelite nuns to withdraw from their Auschwitz convent.

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.

«The Synagogue,» «Jewish legalism,» and all those old slogans of our theological tradition came tumbling down like the house of cards they were.

It was the dying to the old social structure of temple and synagogue which gave a freedom to the Christian community to spread out into the Roman world.

The pastors I have known have told me that we have church buildings because that is the modern day version of the Jewish temple (or synagogue) of the Old Testament and even of Jesus» time.

Finally, in desperation, the young rabbi sought out the synagogue's 99 - year - old founder.

Editor's note: Since 2004, Shmuel Herzfeld has been the Rabbi of Ohev Sholom - The National Synagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C.. His first book will be published within a year, titled: The Relevance of the Torah for our ModeSynagogue, the oldest and largest Orthodox synagogue in Washington, D.C.. His first book will be published within a year, titled: The Relevance of the Torah for our Modesynagogue in Washington, D.C.. His first book will be published within a year, titled: The Relevance of the Torah for our Modern Lives.

My husband and I are happy to enjoy a Shabbat dinner sans challah, though our 8 - and 5 - year - old daughters are very disappointed (especially when we are at synagogue and we ask them not to have any of the challah) to be missing out.

We are making these again this year for our family and also providing the GF dough for our synagogue's Purim Carnival (where many hamantaschen will be made) as well as the recipe for our older daughter's 3rd grade (public Waldorf) class, which is studying Judaism this year, and learning about Purim, in part by making hamantaschen as a school activity.

I've made these myself before, and ladies at the synagogue in my old town used to make them for events -LRB-!)

At 7 p.m., Sen. Bill Perkins hosts a Hanukkah celebration in Harlem, Old Broadway Synagogue, 15 Old Broadway, Manhattan.

On the afternoon of April 5, four New York real estate dignitaries rose from their pews at Temple Emanu - El — the mammoth synagogue built on the site of William Astor's Fifth Avenue mansion — to eulogize the late 102 - year - old developer Leonard Litwin.

We know how traders worked without enforceable laws of contract in the Middle Ages partly because of «an extraordinary cache of eleventh - century documents found in an ancient synagogue in old Cairo».

From the first century B.C.E., this city lay on the frontier of the Roman and Persian empires, which took turns controlling it, and once held both one of the world's oldest Jewish synagogues and oldest Christian churches.

Inside the synagogue, the self - appointed historian of the city's Jews (older than me, young enough to be a son to you) boasted that two million of the restoration's funding was raised among residents of Chmielnik itself.

There are only two dozen Jews that still live there but you can visit India's oldest functioning synagogue in the trinket - lined Jew Street in the pretty Mattancherry neighborhood, dubbed «Jew Town».

WHAT TO DO: Take a five - minute stroll along the Crystal Gade to the St. Thomas Synagogue, a peaceful 174 - year - old refuge with sand - covered floors and whitewashed walls.

When in Prague, be sure to visit the Old New Synagogue in Josefov, the Jewish Quarter.

See some of Karine's top recommendations, including Lobkowicz Palace, the Old New Synagogue, the Astronomical Clock, Charles Bridge and more.

In the old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz, where synagogues that survived WWII still stand, there's a notably bohemian vibe taking hold in new hip spots like Bar Propaganda, appropriately outfitted with a bust of Lenin.

Apparently, Split is home to the second oldest continuously used Sephardic Synagogue in the world still in use.

You may wish to delve deeper into the Old Town, with its grand churches and squares, or explore the Jewish quarter's synagogues and impressive town hall.

On one of our prior visits to the Emilia Romagna region, we visited the Synagogue and Jewish Museum of Ferrara, the oldest Jewish house of prayer in Italy.

This twin - nave synagogue is one of the oldest preserved in Europe and the oldest still active in Europe.