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Oheb Zedek Congregation
East 38th Street and Scovill (Community College)
Avenue. Founded by members who left B'nai Jeshurun, wanting
to remain Orthodox. Built in 1905. Left in 1921 for Glenville (below)
Building now the Triedstone Baptist Church.
See 1911 photo of Jewish
Carpenters Union members.
For a 1976 photo in Cleveland Memory,
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B'nai Jeshurun
BJC
website history page
East 55th Street and Scovill
Known as "The Hungarian Shul"
Congregation moved here in 1906 from Eagle Street
(the former home of Anshe Chesed) and became Conservative.
In 1926 they moved to Mayfield Road as "The Temple on the
Heights".
Building now the
Shiloh Baptist Church. |
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Willson Avenue Temple (Tifereth Israel)
East 55th Street and Central
Occupied 1894 - 1924
Reform
Rabbis Moses Gries, then Abba Hillel Silver
Moved to University Circle (below)
Now the home of Friendship Baptist Church.
See our page on the
Willson Avenue Temple. |
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Euclid Avenue
Temple
Euclid Avenue at East 82nd Street
Now
Anshe Chesed - Fairmount Temple
Reform
Rabbis Louis Wolsey, Barnett Brickner
Occupied 1912 - 1957
Moved to Fairmount Boulevard in Beachwood in
1957
Building now owned by Liberty Hill Baptist Church
click to learn more |
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Oheb Zedek Congregation
Built in 1921
Morison Avenue and Parkwood Drive in Glenville
Orthodox Rabbis
Samuel Benjamin, then
Israel Porath
In the 1950s moved to Taylor Road in Cleveland
Heights.
Congregation now known as Oheb Zedek - Taylor Road Synagogue
Building is now Parkwood CME Church. |
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Tetiever Ahavath Achim Anshe Sfard
954 Linn Drive in Glenville
Orthodox
Moved from East 40th and Woodland to this building in 1926.
Interior has a Sephardic plan, with the bimah facing the
Ark. Balcony for women. In 1957 they constructed what became
Warrensville Center Synagogue.
Now owned by True Vine Baptist Church. |
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Knesseth Israel
950 East 105th St. Glenville
Orthodox
1920 - 1955
Merged into Taylor Road Synagogue in Cleveland Heights
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Cleveland Jewish Center
Anshe Emeth Beth Tefilo -
1117 East 105th Street
Occupied 1921 -1947
Conservative
Rabbis Solomon Goldman, Harry Davidowitz and Armond Cohen
Congregation moved to Cleveland Heights as Park Synagogue, bought
by Cory United Methodist Church
click to learn more |
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The Temple
Tifereth Israel
East 107th Street and Ansel Road
Occupied 1924, still used for life cycle events and
the High Holy Days by Congregation Mishkan Or in Beachwood.
Reform
Rabbis Abba Hillel Silver, Daniel Jeremy Silver
Now part of the Maltz Performing
Arts Center of CWRU
click to learn more |
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Ohave Emmuna Congregation
7115 (7117?) Cedar Avenue. Now Sardis Baptist Church. Jeff
Morris has identified it as Ohave Emnuna (Orthodox), that
would later become part of the
Heights Jewish Center.
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N'Vai Zedek Congregation
East 119th Street and Union Avenue
Mount Pleasant (Kinsman) area
Constructed in 1922.
Rabbi Israel Porath served here in the 1940's.
Would later become part of
Warrensville Center Synagogue
Kehillat Yaakov. |
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Kinsman Jewish Center
B'nai Jacob Kol Israel (Orthodox)
East 146th Street and Kinsman Avenue
Founded in 1930 by members of Anshe Mamoresher B'nai Jacob
Congregation.
Rabbis David Genuth (1933-48), Jacob Muskin (1948)
Building dedicated in 1932, sold in 1958.
Merged with Tetiever Ahavath Achim Anshe Sfard
and Neveh Zedek to form Warrensville Center Synagogue. |
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Beth Israel - The West Temple
Reform 14308 Triskett Road.
website
Organized in April 1954. Merged with the West Side
Jewish Center (Bnai Israel) in 1957.and used the
building the WSJC had built. The only congregation whose home is in
the city of Cleveland. An Ohio
Historical Marker honors A Modern-Day Exodus. |
