Thanks to a wonderful collaboration between the The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary and the American Jewish Historical Society, the records of five of the most important synagogues in New York City are being made available freely online via the Early New York Synagogue Archives portal.
"The Torahs are the most important part of the synagogue," Rabbi Oshry said.
In one of Jesus's teachings, he says, "Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes (stolai), and to have salutations in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honour at banquets" (Mark chapter 12, verses 38-39).
Most important, he rolled out the welcome mat to make his synagogue an inclusive place.
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST) also known as the LGBT synagogue, and is regarded as one of the most important rabbis in America.
This is the most important problem".From a tiny three-room house all of Smela's former synagogues have long since been put to other uses volunteers have built a self-help organisation on a shoe-string.
"It's probably not the most important thing that the building has to have," said Paul Radensky, the president of the synagogue, "but it's a way of putting a new face on the building.
The most important event in Disraeli's boyhood was his father's quarrel in 1813 with the synagogue of Bevis Marks, which led to the decision in 1817 to have his children baptized as Christians.
We recognize that the most important work to reduce drug use is done in America's living rooms and classrooms, in churches, in synagogues and mosques, in the workplace and in our neighborhoods".
The most important modern use of the shofar in religious ceremonies takes place on Rosh Hashana, when it is sounded in the synagogue to call the Jewish people to a spiritual reawakening as the religious New Year begins on Tishri 1.
