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Simons, Marx and Hochstadter families
- Temple Emanu-El was founded on June 28, 1882 by members of the pioneer Simons, Marx and Hochstadter families along with more recent arrivals from the Schuester, Fox, Wise, Lazarus, Jacobs, Adler and Welman families.
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Today Temple Emanu-El is led by Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson, a graduate of Princeton University who was ordained by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Rabbi Davidson’s work has included anti-death penalty advocacy, gay-lesbian inclusion, human rights and interfaith dialogue.
Like so much else in our world, Temple Emanu-El started as an idea, brought to life and realized by a group of young, dedicated individuals. It was 1928. A few Jewish individuals in North Jersey met weekly with Rabbi Max Maccaby of the Jewish Institute of Religion.
Felix Adler, the founder of the Ethical Culture movement, came to New York as a child when his father, Samuel L. Adler, took over as the rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, an appointment that placed him among the most influential figures in Reform Judaism.
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The congregation was founded by a small group of German Jews in the Lower East Side in 1845. Like other New Yorkers, the congregation kept growing and moving uptown. It moved to its present location in 1929. The original German Jewish congregation had a liberal approach to Judaism and had largely assimilated into Western European culture.
The practice of allowing faith to evolve in time and place is a hallmark of Reform Judaism. It’s wonderfully liberating to be absolutely faithful and absolutely modern at the same time. Reform Judaism is an inclusive faith. The idea that we can worship together without being exactly alike is a very New York point of view. There is a great bounty th...
Orchestra of St. Luke’splays Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos No. 4 G major, No. 3 G major, No. 5 in D major, and No 2 in F major on Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 6:30 pm. Free [Bach was German, but the concertos were written in the Italian Concerto Grosso style.]
Temple Emanu-El is in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Temple Emanu-El 1 East 65th St (at Fifth Avenue) (212) 744-1400 Shabbat services are: 1. Fridays at 6 pm 2. Saturdays at 10:30 am An organ recital begins 15 minutes before the services. For more information, visit www.emanuelnyc.org
Temple Emanuel was founded during the Great Depression, a time of despair and doubt, a period in which many in our nation, as well as the world, felt that there was nothing to hope for.
Constructed in 1920, the dome was built for the famed Brooklyn Jewish Center at 667 Eastern Parkway, a beacon of Jewish life as it prospered and flourished in Brooklyn in the mid-20th century.
New Jewish congregations splintered from old ones, inspired by the Reform movement from Europe and the possibilities of life in America. Congregation Emanu-El grew rapidly, moving from the Lower East Side to Fifth Avenue in 1868.
