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The Santiago Jewish Community which operated for mostly fifty years at the Great Synagogue on Serrano Street in south downtown, decides to move its...
The Ohel Jakob synagogue (from Hebrew: “Jacob's Tent”) was built 2004-2006 as the new main synagogue of the Munich Jewish community, located at Sankt-Jakobs-Platz. The synagogue was inaugurated on November 9, 2006, on the 68th anniversary of Kristallnacht. The opening ceremony was led by Charlotte Knobloch, President of Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland. The building is part of the new Jewish Center consisting of the synagogue, the Jewish Museum Munich and a community center. The synagogue was designed by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch who were awarded the contract after an architecture competition on July 6, 2001. The architects had previously completed the new synagogue in Dresden. The topping out ceremony was celebrated on October 25, 2005. The building is a cubic structure of travertine stone topped by a glass cube. The glass roof represents a tent (or Ohel), symbolizing Moses' 40-year-journey through the desert. === Das Jüdische Zentrum Jakobsplatz ist das Gemeindezentrum der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde München und Oberbayern in der Innenstadt Münchens. Zu ihm zählen die im November 2006 geweihte neue Hauptsynagoge Ohel Jakob (hebr.: אהל יעקב, Zelt Jakobs), ein Kultur- und Gemeindehaus (mit Versammlungsräumen, Schule, Kindergarten, Jugendzentrum und Restaurant) sowie das neue Jüdische Museum, das in Trägerschaft der Landeshauptstadt München im März 2007 eröffnet wurde. Der Sockel der 28 Meter hohen Synagoge, die 585 Sitzplätze aufweist, erinnert an die Klagemauer, den einzig erhaltenen Teil des Jerusalemer Tempels. Darüber thronen - in einem quaderförmigen Oberlicht - ineinander verschachtelte Davidsterne aus Stahl. Sie sind verglast und mit einem bronzefarbenen Metallnetz verhängt. Das Oberlicht soll tagsüber Licht einlassen und nachts Licht in die Umgebung abgeben. Die einfallenden Sonnenstrahlen werden mehrfach gebrochen und tauchen das Innere der Synagoge, das mit Zedernholz aus dem Libanon und hellem Jerusalem-Stein verkleidet ist, in warmes Licht. Der Glasaufbau deutet ein Zelt an, das die 40-jährige Wanderung der Juden durch die ägyptische Wüste symbolisiert.
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USA: Puzzled by Beth Tephilah in Troy, New York by Samuel D. Gruber Troy, New York. Congregation Beth Tephilah. West Facade. Photo: Samuel D. Gruber (November, 2010) In addition to the 1870 Reform Congregation Berith Sholom in Troy, New York, of which I have just written, I was intrigued by the architecture and urban survival of the Orthodox Congregation Beth Tephilah at 82 River Street, right on the southeast corner of Russel Sage College, where it has survived surrounded by parking lots. I have not been inside the building, I haven't found anything in my files, and I haven't yet researched this locally, but the application of a Classical portico on the facade of the otherwise very unclassical building intrigues me. From the outside it looks like an earlier block or two-tower facade has been modified to create a partly classical facade, or perhaps an entirely new facade has been grafted on to the main body of the building. All I've found online are the mention of two dates for the building - 1873 and 1909. Was the congregation founded in 1873? Does the main bulk of the building - which clearly has internal galleries for women - date this early (I don't think so)? Was the design of the building changed during construction, or was the classical facade added to an earlier building in 1909 to give it a new look? I've just written an article that is coming out in the journal Jewish History in which I make the case that the revival in classicism - especially in making fully formed classical temples for Reform congregations - was part of the broad branding process of Reform Judaism in the period from about 1900 until World War I. After the war, Reform tends to move to new styles, while through the 1920s Conservative and Orthodox congregations more commonly employ classicism in their own way. If any part of Beth Tefilah is from 1909 I'll have to reconsider what is going on. Still, the situation is not unknown. On the Lower East in New York the tiny Stanton Street Shul, built in 1913, also employs classicism on its facade, though little else in the building suggests not the glories of the ancient world of Greece and Rome - but only Galicia, the land of Yiddishkeit. Troy, New York. Congregation Beth Tephilah. West Facade, Doric Portico . Photo: Samuel D. Gruber (November, 2010) New York, NY. Congregation Bnai Jacob Anshe Brzezan (Stanton Street Shul). This small shul on the Lower East, built in 1913, also applied classical elements, to an otherwise very unclassical building. Photos: Samuel D. Gruber 2005 There is another story that needs to be told here, too. Who fought to save this building when everything around it was torn down (in the 1970s?). How has a congregation managed to maintain it since then. Is really used, and how often? What is the future for Beth Tefilah? I can't wait to get inside this shul on my next visit to Troy...and lean more of this history of this congregation and building. Troy, New York. Congregation Beth Tephilah. South and east sides. Photos: Samuel D. Gruber (November, 2010)
Looking up into the roof/dome of the so-called Spanish Synagogue (Španělská synagoga) in Prague. The building isn't too special from the outside, but the interior is a revelation! More information about the Spanish Synagogue here. Best viewed on black.
How to preserve, manage and promote Jewish historic sites is a pressing issue for reviving post-communist Jewish communities across Central and Eastern Europe. Many of
Amerst, NY – Finegold Alexander Architects recently announced the groundbreaking of a 300-seat sanctuary that will represent the merger of two conservative congregations, Congregation B’nai Shalom (CBS) and Temple Beth Tzedek […]
Overview Orthodox Jewish congregations are not permitted to employ electronic sound reinforcement or amplification technology in their temples. Acoustic design therefore, plays a critical role in assuring acceptable levels of speech intelligibility for their services. This issue was a paramount concern when Miami’s Young Israel Temple began planning their new Shul. To
Marc Chagall in St Petersburg, 1910 It was what some cynics might call a day of typical Mancunian gloom. The mizzle was dreary and the light dismal as I stepped off the bus on Cheetham Hill Road a…
The Eldridge Street Synagogue opened in 1887 as the first and finest Orthodox house of worship built by Eastern European Jews in America.
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