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Established in 1920, the Sephardic community in Los Angeles built its first synagogue in 1932 and moved to larger quarters on Wilshire in 1975. This temple is built of stones, designed to evoke the style of the Old City of Jerusalem, with its massive lines and monumental arches.
Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, also called The Sephardic Temple, is an unaffiliated Jewish congregation and synagogue that adopts Sephardi nusach, located at 10500 Wilshire Boulevard, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, in the United States. Established on February 1, 1920 as the "Sephardic Community of Los Angeles", the congregation exists today as the merger of three major Sephardic ...
Sephardic Jews in Los Angeles established communal institutions nearly coterminous to their arrival. By 1912, they had formed the Avat Shalom congregation, although the synagogue and burial society soon fractured due to cultural and linguistic differences between the Rhodeslis (those originating in Rhodes) and the Turkinos (those originating in ...
The story of Temple Tifereth Israel is partly architectural. That means, to begin with, the story of its remarkable building. But that story is also part of a larger one, including the growth of the Sephardic congregation, a parallel growth and westward movement of Los Angeles, and the growth and relocation of Jewish communities across the ...
As of 2002 the Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel, as it is now known has a congregation of well over 1000 families, second only to New York’s Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, Shearith Israel. A far cry from the original 39 founders in 1920 and 125 members in 1931 and 600 members in 1975.
Oct 7, 2021 · With the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in the year 70, they emerged as the nucleus of Jewish religious activity. Tiberias, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, was a major center of Jewish life in the third century.
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A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 16th century one of Judaism 's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed. [4] In 2022, it had a population of 48,472. [2] Tiberias was founded around 20 CE by Herod Antipas and was named after Roman emperor Tiberius. [5]
