Beth Shalom Synagogue is a Conservative synagogue located at 11916 Jasper Avenue in the Oliver neighbourhood in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada. Founded in 1932, it is the city's second oldest synagogue .
13-1996: (Redirected from Beth Shalom Synagogue ) Beth Shalom or Beth Sholom (Hebrew: בית שלום "house of peace") may refer to: Synagogues [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Beth Shalom Synagogue (Edmonton) , Alberta Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom (Montreal, Quebec) Cuba [ edit ] Beth Shalom Temple (Havana, Cuba) Greece [ edit ] Beth Shalom Synagogue (Athens) New Zealand [ edit ] Beth Shalom (Auckland) United Kingdom [ edit ] Beth Shalom Reform Synagogue (Cambridge) United States [ edit ] California [ edit ] Valley Beth Shalom ( Encino , California ) Connecticut [ edit ] Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek ( Chester , Connecticut ) Florida [ edit ] Temple Beth Sholom (Miami Beach, Florida) Illinois [ edit ] Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation (Chicago, Illinois) Iowa [ edit ] Beit Shalom Jewish Community ( Davenport, Iowa ) Maryland [ edit ] Beth Shalom Congregation (Columbia, Maryland) Beth Sholom Congregation (Frederick, Maryland) Beth Sholom Congregation and Talmud Torah (Potomac, Maryland) New Jersey [ edit ] Temple Beth Sholom (Cherry Hill, New Jersey) New York [ edit ] Congregation Beth Shalom (Clifton Park, New York) Pennsylvania [ edit ] Beth Sholom Congregation (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania) Congregation Beth Shalom (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Rhode Island [ edit ] Congregation Beth Sholom (Providence, Rhode Island) Other [ edit ] Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre (Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom) See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Beth Shalom All pages with titles containing Beth Sholom [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
26-645: A clothing business he had started in Edmonton. Diamond would serve as congregational president until 1938, the same year the synagogue transferred title of its cemetery to the local chevra kadisha (burial society). In September 1907, the Edmonton Hebrew Association also created the Edmonton Talmud Torah for the community's five children, and purchased its first Torah scroll. The Edmonton Talmud Torah would operate out of
39-606: A permanent exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum and another in Huddersfield , the Holocaust Exhibition and Learning Centre, which was opened in 2018. The centre was founded by brothers James and Stephen Smith following a 1991 visit to Israel during which a trip to Yad Vashem changed the way they looked at history and the Holocaust . The museum seeks to educate primary school children about
52-442: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Beth Shalom Synagogue (Edmonton) Edmonton's first rabbi was Hyman Goldstick, recruited from Toronto in 1906; he was later elected mayor of Edson, Alberta . The congregation's Hebrew school, founded in 1907, would share space with the congregation until 1925, and later became Canada's first Jewish day school . In 1928, because
65-641: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall. In April 1907, the Edmonton Hebrew Association registered the Edmonton Hebrew Congregation of Beth Israel under the Religious Societies Lands Act of Alberta. In May of that year it purchased land for a cemetery , near Clover Bar , in Edmonton's east end. In September of that same year William Diamond was appointed president of the congregation. Diamond ran
78-872: The Holocaust through its primary exhibit on children's experiences, funded in part by a lottery grant of nearly £500,000. Prince Harry was educated about the Holocaust at the Centre after he was criticised for wearing a Nazi armband as part of an Afrika Korps costume to a fancy dress party . On 21 July 2010, almost twenty years after the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre was founded, James and Stephen Smith and their mother Marina were each awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) by Nottingham Trent University . 53°11′46″N 0°57′09″W / 53.1962°N 0.9525°W / 53.1962; -0.9525 This article relating to
91-691: The Jewish population grew rapidly as a result of immigration from Eastern Europe, and in-migration from small towns and Jewish agricultural colonies in Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1906, Edmonton's Jews, in concert with Jews in Calgary, began recruiting in eastern Canada for a rabbi to organize their communities. Hyman Goldstick arrived from Toronto in August to take on the role. Born in Latvia in 1882, Goldstick
104-440: The congregation. They began fund raising and bought the lots on Jasper Avenue between 119 Street and 120 Street. The fundraising began in 1943 but the organizers decided to put the funds towards the war effort. The sod turning for the new Beth Shalom building took place on September 15, 1950, and the congregation began to use the partially finished building on April 23, 1951. Edmonton had only sixteen Jews living in it in 1901, but
117-481: The direction of J. H. Samuels, the congregation was formally organized and Rabbi Jacob Eisen was hired as spiritual leader. He gave the synagogue its name, Beth Shalom. After the Second World War, under the direction of Rabbi Leon Hurwitz, a Men's Club and Sisterhood were organized. The concept of a new synagogue building was suggested by H. A. (Harry) Friedman and M. I. (Moe) Lieberman with other leaders in
130-530: The existing Beth Israel was overcrowded, a group of men and women decided to hold High Holiday services in the hall of the Talmud Torah, which had been built on 103rd street, just south of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1925. The Beth Israel supplied a cantor and a reader. The idea of a new congregation that would have a more modern approach where men and women sat together was conceived. On October 14, 1932, under
143-502: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about synagogues with the same or similar names. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended airport article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beth_Shalom&oldid=1254669051 " Category : Synagogue disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Hebrew-language text Short description
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#1732797346423156-598: The synagogue's location for over twelve years, and later became Canada's first Jewish day school . Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre Beth Shalom (lit. "House of Peace"), also named the National Holocaust Centre and Museum , is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in 1995, it is England's only dedicated Holocaust museum, though there is also
169-558: Was Edmonton's first rabbi, and also served as Calgary 's rabbi. He was also the Edmonton community's mohel ( circumciser ), and ritual slaughterer (subsequent rabbis would, for decades, also fill all three roles). On September 16, 1906, the Edmonton Jewish community founded the Edmonton Hebrew Association. Its role was to provide for all Edmonton's Jewish needs, including Jewish education, circumcision, prayer services, kosher meat, and burial. High Holiday services were held in
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