Congregation B'nai Torah (original) (raw)
Congregation B'nai Torah is a Conservative synagogue located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1981 by young, unaffiliated Jews who had attended the Hillel High holiday services at Emory University since the 1970s. The 125 member families met in a closed grammar school until 1984, and then for two years in trailers, until they constructed a synagogue building.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | Congregation B'nai Torah is a Conservative synagogue located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1981 by young, unaffiliated Jews who had attended the Hillel High holiday services at Emory University since the 1970s. The 125 member families met in a closed grammar school until 1984, and then for two years in trailers, until they constructed a synagogue building. The congregation was highly unusual, as it was founded as an Orthodox shul, but without a mechitza. Because of the challenge of being an independent synagogue, it gradually moved towards the Conservative movement, first identifying as "traditional" ("Conservadox") and then finally affiliating with the Conservative movement in November 2003. B'nai Torah hired its first Conservative-ordained (and current) rabbi, Joshua Heller, in 2004. At the time, membership was approximately 420 families. As of June 2009, that had grown to 660, and at July 2015, it had reached 750. The synagogue completed a transition to an egalitarian practice, with women now integrated into all ritual roles. The present location on 700 Mount Vernon Highway contains a large sanctuary, a gift shop, meat and dairy kosher kitchens, a religious school, and a preschool, all of which were renovated in 2014–2015. The congregation also maintains an eruv around surrounding neighborhoods. B'nai Torah hosts many community organizations and events, including MACoM, the Metro Atlanta Community mikvah was constructed on its campus in 2015. (en) |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | http://www.bnaitorah.org |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 12912375 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 3013 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1114498313 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:Sandy_Springs,_Georgia dbr:United_States dbr:Eruv dbr:Orthodox_Judaism dbr:Emory_University dbr:Conservadox dbr:Conservative_Judaism dbr:Mechitza dbc:Conservative_synagogues_in_the_United_States dbr:Rabbi dbc:Buildings_and_structures_in_Fulton_County,_Georgia dbr:Synagogue dbr:Egalitarianism dbc:Synagogues_in_Georgia_(U.S._state) dbr:Kosher dbr:Hillel:_The_Foundation_for_Jewish_Campus_Life dbr:Mikvah dbr:High_Holidays |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Cleanup_bare_URLs dbt:Coord dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description dbt:US-synagogue-stub |
| dct:subject | dbc:Conservative_synagogues_in_the_United_States dbc:Buildings_and_structures_in_Fulton_County,_Georgia dbc:Synagogues_in_Georgia_(U.S._state) |
| gold:hypernym | dbr:Synagogue |
| georss:point | 33.943377777777776 -84.35964722222222 |
| rdf:type | yago:WikicatBuildingsAndStructuresInFultonCounty,Georgia yago:WikicatConservativeSynagoguesInTheUnitedStates geo:SpatialThing yago:Artifact100021939 yago:Building102913152 yago:Object100002684 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:PlaceOfWorship103953416 yago:YagoGeoEntity yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:ReligiousBuilding yago:Structure104341686 yago:Synagogue104374735 yago:Whole100003553 yago:WikicatSynagoguesInGeorgia(U.S.State) |
| rdfs:comment | Congregation B'nai Torah is a Conservative synagogue located in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1981 by young, unaffiliated Jews who had attended the Hillel High holiday services at Emory University since the 1970s. The 125 member families met in a closed grammar school until 1984, and then for two years in trailers, until they constructed a synagogue building. (en) |
| rdfs:label | Congregation B'nai Torah (en) |
| owl:sameAs | freebase:Congregation B'nai Torah yago-res:Congregation B'nai Torah wikidata:Congregation B'nai Torah https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4iLkF |
| geo:geometry | POINT(-84.359649658203 33.943378448486) |
| geo:lat | 33.943378 (xsd:float) |
| geo:long | -84.359650 (xsd:float) |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:Congregation_B'nai_Torah?oldid=1114498313&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:Congregation_B'nai_Torah |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:List_of_Jewish_communities_in_North_America dbr:List_of_synagogues_in_the_United_States |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:Congregation_B'nai_Torah |