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In 1974, Temple Shaaray Tefila, NYC, lent CBST a Torah for the High Holy Days. In 1976, CBST received a Torah on permanent loan with the metal gates of its ark from the closed Reform
Tremont Temple Gates of Mercy, Bronx, NY. CBST raised funds to…

For the Torah Fund, CBST appealed…"Let each of us reflect whether the commitment we have made, or are about to make, represents out truest and most noble feelings.”

CBST’s Friday night liturgy was always unique. The original siddur consisted of photocopied handouts of thirty-four pages in a report folder. Some members felt calling the siddur a shmatte (rag) was disrespectful. Others felt the name expressed the…

An image of activists with Congregation Beit Simchat Torah and the American Jewish Synagogue