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Congregation Beth Israel (Meridian, Mississippi)

Index Congregation Beth Israel (Meridian, Mississippi)

Congregation Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi, is a Reform Jewish congregation founded in 1868 and a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. [1]

69 relations: Alsace, American Civil War, Beth Israel Congregation (Jackson, Mississippi), Carport, Civil rights movement, Dynamite, Eastern Europe, Fainting couch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Florence, Alabama, Funerary art, Germans, Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, Greek Revival architecture, High Holy Days, Ionic order, Islamic architecture, Jackson, Mississippi, Ku Klux Klan, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, List of Mississippi Landmarks, Marion, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Menorah (Temple), Merchant, Meridian, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mobile, Alabama, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, New Orleans, Noah's Ark, Orthodox Judaism, P. J. Krouse, Paula Ackerman, Pensacola, Florida, Rabbi, Reform Judaism, Rome News-Tribune, Rural cemetery, Semikhah, Shabbat, Spokane, Washington, Star of David, Submachine gun, Sunday school, Temple, Temple Beth-El (Pensacola, Florida), ..., Temple of Athena Nike, Ten Commandments, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, The Jewish Week, The Meridian Star, The Spokesman-Review, The Tuscaloosa News, Time (magazine), TimesDaily, Touro Synagogue (New Orleans), Union for Reform Judaism, United States Census, University of Mississippi, Victorian era, Wechsler School, White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Youth ministry, 1980 United States Census, 2000 United States Census. Expand index (19 more) »

Alsace

Alsace (Alsatian: ’s Elsass; German: Elsass; Alsatia) is a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Beth Israel Congregation (Jackson, Mississippi)

Beth Israel Congregation (בית ישראל) is a Reform Jewish congregation located at 5315 Old Canton Road in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.

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Carport

A carport is a covered structure used to offer limited protection to vehicles, primarily cars, from rain and snow.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Dynamite

Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay) and stabilizers.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of the European continent.

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Fainting couch

A fainting couch is a couch with a back that is traditionally raised at one end.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Florence, Alabama

Florence is a city in, and the county seat of, Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state's northwest corner.

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Funerary art

Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life

The Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, formerly the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, is a non-profit Jewish organization based in Jackson, Mississippi that provides a variety of educational, cultural and religious services to underserved Jewish communities throughout the South.

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Greek Revival architecture

The Greek Revival was an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in Northern Europe and the United States.

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High Holy Days

The High Holidays or High Holy Days, in Judaism, more properly known as the Yamim Noraim (ימים נוראים "Days of Awe"), may mean.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order forms one of the three classical orders of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Islamic architecture

Islamic architecture encompasses a wide range of both secular and religious styles from the early history of Islam to the present day.

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Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital city and largest urban center of the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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Lauderdale County, Mississippi

Lauderdale County is a county located on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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List of Mississippi Landmarks

The following is a list of Mississippi Landmarks officially nominated by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and approved by each county's chancery clerk.

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Marion, Mississippi

Marion is a town in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, making it an eastern suburb of Meridian.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Menorah (Temple)

The menorah (מְנוֹרָה) is described in the Bible as the seven-lamp (six branches) ancient Hebrew lampstand made of pure gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem.

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Merchant

A merchant is a person who trades in commodities produced by other people.

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Meridian, Mississippi

Meridian is the sixth largest city in the state of Mississippi, United States.

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Mississippi State Penitentiary

Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a prison farm, the oldest prison, and the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge and Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, west of Boston.

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Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, involved three activists that were abducted and murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.

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Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark (תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ) is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from a world-engulfing flood.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

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P. J. Krouse

Penn Jeffries Krouse (September 23, 1877–April 1944), usually known as P. J. Krouse was a prolific architect in the state of Mississippi.

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Paula Ackerman

Paula Ackerman (פאולה אקרמן, December 7, 1893 — January 12, 1989) was the first woman to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leading the Beth Israel congregation in Meridian, Mississippi from 1951–53 (making her the first woman to assume spiritual leadership of a U.S. mainstream Jewish congregation) and the Beth-El congregation in Pensacola, Florida briefly in the 1960s.

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Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle, approximately from the border with Alabama, and the county seat of Escambia County, in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah.

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Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism (also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism) is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of the faith, the superiority of its ethical aspects to the ceremonial ones, and a belief in a continuous revelation not centered on the theophany at Mount Sinai.

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Rome News-Tribune

Rome News-Tribune is the local daily newspaper of Rome, Georgia, in the United States.

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Rural cemetery

The rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of burial ground that uses landscaping in a park-like setting.

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Semikhah

Smicha or semikhah (סמיכה, "leaning "), also smichut ("ordination"), smicha lerabbanut ("rabbinical ordination"), or smicha lehazzanut ("cantorial ordination"), is derived from a Hebrew word which means to "rely on" or "to be authorized".

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Shabbat

Shabbat (שַׁבָּת, "rest" or "cessation") or Shabbos (Ashkenazi Hebrew and שבת), or the Sabbath is Judaism's day of rest and seventh day of the week, on which religious Jews, Samaritans and certain Christians (such as Seventh-day Adventists, the 7th Day movement and Seventh Day Baptists) remember the Biblical creation of the heavens and the earth in six days and the Exodus of the Hebrews, and look forward to a future Messianic Age.

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Spokane, Washington

Spokane is a city in the state of Washington in the northwestern United States.

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Star of David

The Star of David (✡), known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David (Hebrew rtl; Biblical Hebrew Māḡēn Dāwīḏ, Tiberian, Modern Hebrew, Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Mogein Dovid or Mogen Dovid), is a generally recognized symbol of modern Jewish identity and Judaism.

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Submachine gun

A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed, automatic carbine designed to fire pistol cartridges.

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Sunday school

A Sunday School is an educational institution, usually (but not always) Christian, which catered to children and other young people who would be working on weekdays.

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Temple

A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual rituals and activities such as prayer and sacrifice.

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Temple Beth-El (Pensacola, Florida)

The Temple Beth-El (ק.ק. בית אל), located in downtown Pensacola, Florida, is the oldest dedicated Jewish house of worship in Florida.

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Temple of Athena Nike

The Temple of Athena Nike (Greek: Ναός Αθηνάς Νίκης, Naós Athinás Níkis) is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens, dedicated to the goddess Athena Nike.

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Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְּרוֹת, Aseret ha'Dibrot), also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity.

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The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives

The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, founded in 1947, is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.

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The Jewish Week

The Jewish Week is a weekly independent community newspaper targeted towards the Jewish community of the metropolitan New York City area.

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The Meridian Star

The Meridian Star is a daily newspaper published each morning in Meridian, Mississippi, United States, covering Lauderdale County and adjoining portions of West Alabama and East Mississippi.

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The Spokesman-Review

The Spokesman-Review is a daily broadsheet newspaper in the northwest United States, based in Spokane, Washington, that city's only daily publication.

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The Tuscaloosa News

The Tuscaloosa News is a daily newspaper serving Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, and the surrounding area in west central Alabama.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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TimesDaily

The TimesDaily is the daily newspaper for Florence, Alabama.

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Touro Synagogue (New Orleans)

Touro Synagogue is a Reform synagogue in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Union for Reform Judaism

The Union for Reform Judaism (until 2003: Union of American Hebrew Congregations), is the congregational arm of Reform Judaism in North America, founded in 1873 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise.

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United States Census

The United States Census is a decennial census mandated by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states: "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States...

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University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi (colloquially known as Ole Miss) is an American public research university located in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Wechsler School

Wechsler School is a historic school in Meridian, Mississippi erected in 1894.

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White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are considered the most militant as well as the most violent chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in history.

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Youth ministry

Youth Ministry, also commonly referred to as youth group, is an age-specific religious ministry.

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1980 United States Census

The Twentieth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 226,545,805, an increase of 11.4 percent over the 203,184,772 persons enumerated during the 1970 Census.

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2000 United States Census

The Twenty-second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 Census.

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Redirects here:

Beth Israel Cemetery (Meridian, Mississippi).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_Beth_Israel_(Meridian,_Mississippi)

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