Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes
Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located at 236 Kane Street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Founded in 1856, the congregation constructed the first synagogue on Long Island. The famous composer Aaron Copland celebrated his Bar Mitzvah there in 1913.
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Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue located at 236 Kane Street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Founded in 1856, the congregation constructed the first synagogue on Long Island. The famous composer Aaron Copland celebrated his Bar Mitzvah there in 1913, and long-time Goldman Sachs head Sidney Weinberg was married there in 1920. Early tensions between traditionalists and reformers led to the latter forming Congregation Beth Elohim, a Reform synagogue, in 1861. The synagogue nearly failed in the early 20th century, but the 1905 hiring of Israel Goldfarb as rabbi, the purchase of its current buildings, and the 1908 merger with Talmud Torah Anshee Emes re-invigorated the congregation. membership peaked in the 1920s, but with the onset of the Great Depression declined steadily, and by the 1970s the congregation could no longer afford to heat the sanctuary. The congregation renovated its schoolcommunity center in 2004, and in 2008 embarked on a million-dollar capital campaign to renovate the sanctuary of the Kane Street Synagogue. It is currently the oldest continuously operating synagogue in Brooklyn. It was founded by 12 Bavarian, Dutch, and Portuguese Jews who had grown tired of rowing across the East River each Friday to celebrate Shabbat in Manhattan. The group had originally organized in 1855 as the United Brethren Society, a benefit society that provided members with medical and burial assistance.
In 1862, the remaining 35 members purchased two lots at the corner of State Street and Boerum Hill for USD 3,000 and laid the cornerstone for a new building. The building was completed on August 31 by dignitaries and assembled by Alexander and Alexander and assembled the first Sunday school in Brooklyn at the time. In 1869 reformers left the congregation and founded Temple Israel of Williamsburg, Williamsburg. Though many reformers had left, many reforms were introduced in the congregation, with most of the most piyyutyy abolished in the most recent service in the service of Kodesh Kahalodesh, with the most notable being the abolition of the piyuty, which had been abolished by the congregation in 1869. In the year 1869 there were almost 52 million passengers on the ferry from Whitehall Street in Manhattan to South Ferry, Brooklyn. The first synagogue was built on August 12, 1861, at a cost of USD 10,000, and was consecrated by Alexander, Alexander, and Schuleum Hill dignitary. In 1861, 41 of the latter left Baith India to form the Congregation Beth Elohim of Williamsburg, and joined the Temple Israel of Kalesh Eloh burg. That year Baith Israel hired the Reverend Joel Alexander as its religious leader. He was a graduate of the Jews Seminary in Münster, and had been ordained both in Posen and by Hermann Adler, the Chief Rabbi of the UK.
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