What is the Jewish church called?

Answer 1

A Jewish place of worship is either referred to as a Temple or a synagogue.

Answer 2

There is no Jewish "church" in the sense of the Catholic Church or the Protestant Church. The physical place where observant Jews worship is called a synagogue or temple. There are various branches of Judaism, known as Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, etc. The Hassidim are a well-known ultraorthodox sect.

Answer 3

Synagogue.
Jews used to have a temple in Jerusalem housing the Ark of the Covenant but it was destroyed in the first century AD. The Western Wall is all that remains of it.

Answer 4

A synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת ; beit knesset, "house of assembly"; Yiddish: שול, shul; Ladino אסנוגה esnoga) is a Jewish place of religious worship. The word "synagogue" is derived from the Greek συναγωγή, transliterated synagogé. The related verb, συναγω, means "to gather together". It is where Judaism's Jewish services are held and conducted .

The Hebrew term for synagogue, Beit Knesset - בית כנסת ("House of Assembly", should not be confused with the Knesset which is the modern name for the parliament of Israel, a political institution). Some congregations call their synagogues by other names, such as Beit Tefila - בית תפילה ("House of Prayer").

A synagogue usually includes a large hall for prayer (the main sanctuary), smaller rooms for study, and often a social hall and offices. Some larger synagogues may have a room set aside for Torah study which is referred to as a Beth midrash - בית מדרש ("House of Study").

Many Orthodox Jews and most Conservative Jews in English-speaking countries refer to their houses of worship as synagogues. Spanish and Portuguese Jews call the synagogue an esnoga, which derives from "synagogue". Persian Jews refer to the Jewish house of worship as Kenesa. Modern-day Karaites tend to use the term Kenesa, which is derived from Aramaic. Most Reform and some Conservative congregations in the United States call their house of worship a "temple," although Reform Jews in the United Kingdom do not.

Answer 5

They are called synagogues (sometimes shul--Yiddish) or congregations. Generally, they are not called temples because there is only one Temple, the one in Jerusalem that was destroyed. If the name of one is Temple (ex, Temple B'nei Yisrael), the people who go their will probably call it Congregation B'nei Yisrael when speaking of it, since there is supposed to be only one Temple. But they are called synagogues. Jews will either call them by the name of shul or beit knesset (Hebrew for synagogue).

Answer 6

Jews don't have a church. They have a Synagogue. It is nothing like a church. It is more like a community of worship




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Answer 7

Temple or Synagogue.

The collective body of people may be referred to as "Israel"
but this is a spiritual nation not limited by physical geography.

Answer 8

A Shul, or Bayt Kenesset (house of meeting). Other terms are used, but these are the actual ones.

Answer 9

the institution = Judaism
the actual building = synagogue

Answer 10

Synagogue (they are often named "temple ...", like the one in my city, "Temple Beth Shalom").