Congregation Or Chadash
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Congregation Or Chadash (Hebrew: אוֹר חָדָשׁ, lit. 'New Light') was a Reform Jewish LGBT-oriented congregation that was located at 5959 North Sheridan Road, Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.[2][3]
Congregation Or Chadash | |
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Hebrew: אוֹר חָדָשׁ | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Reform Judaism (former) |
Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Synagogue (1975 – 2016) |
Status | Closed; merged with Am Keshet LGBT group at Temple Sholom |
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Date established | 1975 (as a congregation) |
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The congregation was founded in 1975[4] as a gay support group for Jews,[5] and was holding religious services by 1976.[6] In 1977 it moved into its first building, a former Unitarian church on West Barry Avenue,[5][6] and hired its first permanent rabbi, Suzanne Griffel, in 1997.[7]
Griffel was succeeded as rabbi by Larry Edwards,[8] and Or Chadash moved a new location, which shared with another synagogue and a Jewish day school, in 2003.[3] In October 2010, Or Chadash was thought to be one of the two synagogues targeted in the 2010 cargo planes bomb plot.[9]
In 2016, Or Chadash merged into another Reform congregation, Temple Sholom, with Or Chadash remaining the name of the Temple's LGBTQ+ community group.