Five New Synagogues Planned in Tel Aviv

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Five New Synagogues Planned in Tel Aviv
 
by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Demand is up: Five new synagogues will be built in five northern Tel Aviv neighborhoods.

The Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv

The neighborhoods, all relatively new ones, are Ramat Aviv Gimmel, Kokhav HaTzafon, New Ramat Aviv, Ezorei Hen, and North Tel Baruch.

Eldad Mizrachi, who heads the Tel Aviv Religious Council, said, "We are happy to see that the demand for the new synagogues is coming mainly from the residents themselves - indicating a spiritual-Torah thirst even in areas that were not exactly considered fortresses of religiosity." 

There are currently 544 synagogues in operation in Tel Aviv. Mizrachi said he hopes the five new ones will be completed over a "not long period."

The Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, told HaTzofeh's Tuli Pikarsh, "There are more worshippers, and not enough places for them to sit."

At a recent gathering of Tel Aviv synagogue gabbaim (sextons), Mizrachi spoke "in the name of hundreds of rabbis who are happy that Rabbi Lau is continuing his Rabbinic mission in this 'city that never stops.'" Rabbi Lau, a former Chief Rabbi of Israel, recently decided not to run for President of Israel.

Rabbi Lau spoke of the recent flowering of Torah study and spiritual pursuits in Tel Aviv. Two examples of this are Yeshivat Maaleh Eliyahu and the Rosh Yehudi center.

Maaleh Eliyahu is a hesder yeshiva established about ten years ago by a group of students from Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav Kook, headed by Rabbi Chaim Ganz. The yeshiva's activities include hosting soldiers for classes, one-on-one study, meals, as well as other community outreach.

Rosh Yehudi (lit., Jewish Head, or Jewish Mindset), is a Torah study center and community for those seeking to add Jewish spirituality to their lives. It produces a weekly pamphlet detailing, among other things, the stories of young Israelis who grew up secular and returned to Jewish observance through Rosh Yehudi. Located near Shenkin St., considered a bastion of secularism in modern Israeli society, Rosh Yehudi seeks to answer questions such as, "What is the nature of our connection to each other as members of the Jewish people, and what is this connection based on? Where does it come from? Do we, as a nation and as a State, have a message for humanity? What is our commitment to the State and to the IDF? What type of relationship should there be between the individual and society in general?"

[aC23]

Thank G-d, this is wonderful news!

[Shoshana]

That's wonderful!

[newman]

And in Tel Aviv!.......almost a miracle.

[Shoshana]

And in Tel Aviv!.......almost a miracle.

Yes it certainly isn't a place you think of when you think of a growing religious population but this is wonderful.

[newman]

And in Tel Aviv!.......almost a miracle.

Yes it certainly isn't a place you think of when you think of a growing religious population but this is wonderful.

HaShem told Abraham he wouldn't have destroyed Sodom if there had been as many as 10 righteous men there, so perhaps New Sodom (Tel Aviv) will be saved.

[decimos]

Baruch HaShem.wonderful can we Noahides come and listen.

[newman]

Baruch HaShem.wonderful can we Noahides come and listen.

Do you know how to spot the noachides at a reform or conservative synagogue?


They're the ones paying attention.

[AussieJTFer]

Tel Aviv isn't the atheist capital of the world that many make it out to be. Yes the majority are non-religious, secular and left wing but there are very well established, religious communities in Tel Aviv, specifically the Hatikvah neighbourhood, Yafo, the charedim in Bnei Brak and Bat Yam. North Tel Aviv is where the left wing whackos are concentrated. The most non-religious communities actually live in the Gush Dan area north of Tel Aviv in cities like Herziliyah, Raanana and Ramat Hasharon.

[AussieJTFer]

They're practically suburbs of Tel Aviv although not part of Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality. Most people in Israel that I have spoken to consider Bat Yam, Holon, Ramat Gan and Rishon as pretty much suburbs of Tel Aviv as there is no uninhabited areas between those cities and Tel Aviv-Yafo proper, unlike Herziliyah and the cities to the north. Although the gap between North Tel Aviv and Herziliyah is shrinking.

[MarZutra]

Are they going to be Othodox Synagogues or Deformed "Temples"?

[דוד בן זאב אריה]

Tel Aviv great. Orthodox would be better

[TorahZionist]

Yeshivat Maaleh Eliyahu in Tel Aviv: mms://213.8.160.121/maale/TelAvivEN.wmv

[OdKahaneChai]

Baruch Hashem!

Are they going to be Othodox Synagogues or Deformed "Temples"?

The Deformed don't do too well in Israel.