North Shore Synagogue

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North Shore Synagogue
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North Shore Synagogue, Lindfield New South Wales
Religion
Affiliation Modern Orthodox Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status Active
OwnershipNorthern Sydney Hebrew Congregation
Location
LocationTreatts Road, Lindfield, New South Wales
CountryAustralia
Geographic coordinates 33°46′16″S151°09′55″E / 33.771061°S 151.165267°E / -33.771061; 151.165267 Coordinates: 33°46′16″S151°09′55″E / 33.771061°S 151.165267°E / -33.771061; 151.165267
Architecture
Type Synagogue
Date established1947 (1947)
Completed1950;69 years ago (1950)
Website
www.nss.asn.au

The North Shore Synagogue is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue located in the Sydney suburb of Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1947, and having built its synagogue in 1950, [1] it is the oldest synagogue on Sydney's North Shore.

Modern Orthodox Judaism is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the secular, modern world.

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Overview

For thirty years the rabbi at the North Shore Synagogue was Rabbi David Rogut OAM who retired in 2003. The current Rabbi is Rabbi Paul Lewin. North Shore Synagogue also has a Chazan, Zvi Teichtahl who came to the synagogue in 2008. Past Chazans have been Rabbi Binyamin Tanny and Danny Sloman. The North Shore Synagogue contains a Choir and a Ladies Guild. The current President of the North Shore Synagogue is Trevor Collins. Past presidents include Ken Wolfsohn, Sarah Zukerman, Calvin Stein and David Blitz. On Friday nights, Saturdays and religious festivals the synagogue conducts a children's service which is led by various youth over the age of fourteen.

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. The basic form of the rabbi developed in the Pharisaic and Talmudic era, when learned teachers assembled to codify Judaism's written and oral laws. The first sage for whom the Mishnah uses the title of rabbi was Yohanan ben Zakkai, active in the early-to-mid first century CE. In more recent centuries, the duties of a rabbi became increasingly influenced by the duties of the Protestant Christian minister, hence the title "pulpit rabbis", and in 19th-century Germany and the United States rabbinic activities including sermons, pastoral counseling, and representing the community to the outside, all increased in importance.

The North Shore Synagogue runs a madrichim program on Tuesday evenings known as the 'Jewth Group'. They run activities on all the major festivals and hold children services on Friday evenings.

See also

The history of the Jews in Australia traces the history of Australian Jews from the British settlement of Australia commencing in 1788. The first Jews came to Australia as convicts transported to Botany Bay in 1788 aboard the First Fleet that established the first European settlement on the continent, on the site of present-day Sydney. There were 97,335 Australians who identified themselves as Jewish in the 2011 census, but the actual number is estimated to be 112,000. The majority are Ashkenazi Jews, many of them refugees and Holocaust survivors who arrived during and after World War II, and their descendants. Jewish citizens make up about 0.5% of the Australian population.

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References

  1. "History". The North Shore Synagogue. 2017. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

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