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Bema

An ancient Greek unit of length approximately equivalent to 1.54 meters. It was also called a diploun bema.

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Recessed adjustable 75-W PAR38 fixtures are aimed at the bimah's reading table from which the Torah is read at services.

Big tent philosophy: spatial reorganization and relighting of a tent-like 1950s' synagogue in Beverly Hills creates an environment of contemporary elegance that respects its historical origin

From the architectural point of view, during the time of the ghetto, the synagogues were much simpler externally, but not in terms of the aron or bimah. Later, with the opening of the ghetto gates, synagogue architecture changed and became more similar to the style of building outside the ghetto walls.

The role of the holy place in memory and nostalgia: the immigration of Italian Jews to Israel before and after WWII

Gluck, observed the way some congregations indiscriminately invite youngsters of all ages to come dashing up onto the bimah just before a service's conclusion, including the final one of Yom Kippur (Ne'ilah), and encourage them to mill around aimlessly as if at a playground.

Touching the infinite through liturgy

"This is who is up on the bimah [a synagogue's raised platforin where the Torah is read].

The chosen rabbi: out rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum has led New York's largest LGBT synagogue through AIDS and 9/11--and now she's planning World Pride in Jerusalem. Her new book shares her loving message

He also noted the raised bimah at the opposite end of the room from the Ark, is also in Rococo motif.

Avignon's 'Odd Couple': the popes and Jews of medieval Provence

The orange is a modern response to a comment a conservative rabbi once made about women becoming rabbis: "A woman belongs on the bimah (the area from which the service is conducted) like an orange belongs on a Seder plate."

Symbols of the spirit

The men ceremoniously remove a Torah scroll from the ark and carry it around the sanctuary for worshipers to touch with their prayer shawls before it is placed on the bimah and read.

Communities and Enclaves: Where Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Muslims Share the Neighborhoods

Once, just as I was climbing the steps to the tebah (altar) to lead some prayers, a boy entered the synagogue and I was literally pulled off the bimah to make room for him.

Bringing identities into focus: race, gender & religion

As the third aliyah, a woman, ascended the bimah on a recent Saturday morning for the weekly Conservative service at the Jewish Cultural and Community Center (known by the English acronym JC3) in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, I reached for the only spiral-bound siddur left, one with a Spanish translation, and slipped into a seat in the former warehouse building, now renovated into a synagogue that is home to 198 members.

The Jews of San Miguel de Allende

Above the bimah, stage, there is a Ner Tamid, eternal light.

Jewish Theater of Elgin to put on its first play, 'Rosenstrasse' -BYLN- Submitted by Sarah Klein

Inside is a sumptuous interior (Figures 2 and 3): a sanctuary of stained glass and elegant pews seating nearly twenty-five hundred people, a bimah (elevated platform) framed by glittering mosaics, and an ark flanked by two large seven-branched menorahs.

A home between death and life: mausoleums as liminal spaces of memory for classical reform Jews of Temple Emanu-El, 1890-1945

The Bimah, a wooden structure where religious scrolls known as Torah are read out during services, will also be relocated to Israel.

Synagogue to be given new life in homes plan; ARCHITECTS INSIST THEY WILL PROTECT LISTED BUILDING'S HISTORIC CORE