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Click here to read (and hear) the Torah blessings.
This week's Torah portion is Parashat Re'eh. Havdalah starts 42 minutes after sundown, at 8:22 pm on Saturday, August 30. Courtesy of hebcal.com |
Candle lighting is at 7:24 pm on Friday, August 29.
When the building opened in 1922 as the home of Chizuk Amuno, it was the practice for men and women to sit separately. The central section of sanctuary seating was designed for men, while women sat in the side sections. Mixed seating began in the congregation in 1947. The building has been painstakingly preserved. Visitors — and congregants — marvel at the spiritual feeling the sanctuary evokes through the interplay of light, space, sound, and architectural detail.
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The
Beth Am synagogue building, a grand Moorish-inspired structure, was designed
by noted architect Joseph Evans Sperry, who had designed such local landmarks
as the Bromo Seltzer Tower, the Provident Bank Building, and the Eutaw Place
Temple, former home of Oheb Shalom Congregation. Sperry first studied the
architecturally important synagogues of Europe. Many people comment on Beth
Am's similarity to the Great Synagogue of Florence with its three-arched entrance
and Byzantine-Moorish design.
The
modernizations necessary to keep Beth Am vibrant have been delicately incorporated
into the historic structure. The building and the sanctuary are fully accessible.