Nusach Hari B'nai Zion

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Connecting to roots is a quintessentially Jewish experience and Nusach Hari B’nai Zion has quite a history to celebrate. Nusach Hari began in 1901 as a small minyan of Russian immigrants who met in a private home at 11th and Biddle Streets. By 1905 the group, which had grown to forty families, rented a hall at 13th and Biddle for their services and officially chartered their congregation. In 1907 the charter was revised under the name Ohavay Shalom Nusach Hari. A “Nusach” refers to the traditional order and form of Jewish prayers. Nusach Hari’s name is derived from the desire to pray “in the spirit of Ari” – the sixteenth-century Kabbalist Rabbi Isaac Luria (known as “The Ari,” an acronym fo

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