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B’nai Israel (Millburn, New Jersey)
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Percival Goodman won the commission to design the building for Congregation B’nai Israel after speaking at a two-day symposium organized in 1947 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations to…

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Percival Goodman

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1951

Subjects:

Synagogue, Cities, Piety, Conservative Judaism, Modernism

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Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Exterior wall of synagogue featuring Star of David on the right side of the wall and a ribbon-like sculpture in the middle of the wall on a prominent vertical section that juts out from the rest of the wall, with inscription in English reading "And the bush was not consumed."
The Tenth Man
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The Cabalist:Sexton, light the candles. [The Sexton lights each man’s candle. The Cabalist advances slowly to The Girl, who stands slackly, her body making small occasional jerking movements…

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Paddy Chayefsky

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Date:

1959

Subjects:

Conservative Judaism, Mysticism, Love, Synagogue, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Literature, Fiction