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Added to NRHP. March 31, 2010. [1] Congregation Sherith Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "loyal remnant of Israel ") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in San Francisco, California, in the United States. Founded in 1851 during California’s Gold Rush period, it is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States.
amtikvah.org. [1][2] Congregation Am Tikvah (transliterated from Hebrew as "People of Hope") is a combined Conservative and Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 625 Brotherhood Way in San Francisco, California, in the United States. [3][4] The congregation was formed in 2021 as the result of the merger of the Conservative B'nai ...
During the Gold Rush in 1849, a small group of Jews held the first High Holy Days services in a tent in San Francisco; it was the first Jewish service on the West Coast of the United States. [1] This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851.
The history of the Jews in San Francisco began with the California Gold Rush in the second half of the 19th-century. The San Francisco Bay Area has the fourth largest Jewish population in the U.S. [1] behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles. Jewish San Franciscans played a significant role in the economic and ...
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The museum, which was founded in 1984, is located in the historic Jessie Street Substation, which was gutted and its interior redesigned by Daniel Libeskind , along ...
Temple Sinai (officially the First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland[8]) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 2808 Summit Street (28th and Webster Streets) in Oakland, California, in the United States. Founded in 1875, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in the East San Francisco Bay region. [9][10]
Fresco by Diego Riviera in the Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute 295 San Francisco Eagle Bar: 396–398 12th Street October 29, 2021 296 Casa Sanchez Building: 2778 24th Street February 11, 2022 297 Crocker National Bank Building: 1–25 Montgomery Street March 14, 2022 298 "Allegory of California" fresco 155 Sansome Street ...
The roots of the Astoria Center of Israel can be traced back to Jewish congregation Mishkan Israel, begun sometime in the 1880s, constructing a building in 1906. In 1921 that congregation built a Talmud Torah next to its first building, where education could "implant in our children a love and reverence for our noble tradition." That education ...