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Hillel
B'nai Torah 120 Corey Street West Roxbury, MA 02132 617-323-0486 |
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Hillel B'nai Torah's beginnings date back to 1949, with the Parkway
Jewish Women's Club. A year later, the Parkway Jewish Men's Association
came into being. By 1955, the group formed Temple Beth Torah, a
conservative synagogue with its own Hebrew School. With 300 Jewish
families in West Roxbury, the congregation moved into the original building
on Corey Street, engaged Rabbi Oscar Bookspan and Cantor Simon Erdman
as spiritual leaders, added a new sanctuary, and flourished into the 1960s.
In
1970, Temple Beth Hillel left its historic building in Mattapan and merged
with Beth Torah to become Temple Hillel B'nai Torah. Many of the historic
plaques, the Torah scrolls, and Torah reading table in the sanctuary are
mementos of the Mattapan congregation.
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