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((Short description|Reform Jewish synagogue in San Francisco, California, United States))
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((For|similarly named synagogues|Emanu-El (disambiguation)((!))Emanu-El))
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'''Congregation Emanu-El''' is a [[Reform Judaism|Reform]] [[Jewish]] congregation and [[synagogue]], located at 2 Lake Street, in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], in the United States. Founded in 1850, the congregation is one of the two [[Oldest synagogues in the United States|oldest Jewish congregations in California]], and one of the largest Jewish congregations in the United States. A member of the [[Union for Reform Judaism]], Congregation Emanu-El is a significant((clarify|date=January 2024|reason=significant, as in large, or as in meaningful… if the latter, aren't all synagogues meaningful?))  gathering place for the Bay Area Jewish community. 

==History==
[[File:Jewish Synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El. Sutter Street, San Francisco, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.png|thumb|Early Temple Emanu-El. Sutter Street, San Francisco, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views]]
[[File:Stained glass window at Temple Emmanuel in San Francisco 2.jpg|thumb|Stained glass window at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco]]
[[File:Mosaic at Temple Emmanuel in San Francisco.jpg|thumb|Mosaic at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco]]
[[File:Pews at Temple Emmanuel in San Francisco.jpg|thumb|Pews at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco]]
During the Gold Rush in 1849, a small group of Jews held the first [[High Holy Days]] services in a tent in San Francisco; it was the first Jewish service on the [[West Coast of the United States]].<ref name="JW" /> This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851. The 16 signatories were mostly [[History of the Jews in Germany|German Jews]] from [[Bavaria]].

In 1860, Reform rabbi Elkan Cohn joined the Emanu-El congregation; in 1877, he led the congregation as the first in the West to join the [[Reform movement]].<ref name="JW" /> As the Reform movement spread in the United States during the early twentieth century, the synagogue became affiliated with this framework. 

In 1884 [[Julie Rosewald]] became America's first female [[hazzan|cantor]] when she began serving in Emanu-El, although she was not ordained; and served as cantor until 1893.<ref name="jwa.org">((cite web |url=http://jwa.org/blog/Julie-Rosewald |title=Julie Rosewald: America's first woman cantor |work=jwa.org |date= |access-date= ))</ref><ref name="thejewishweek.com">((cite web |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/short_takes/forgotten_woman_cantor_julie_rosewald_now_getting_her_due |title=The Forgotten Woman Cantor: Julie Rosewald Now Getting Her Due |work=The Jewish Week |date= |access-date=2014-09-15 |archive-date=2016-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514113854/http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/short_takes/forgotten_woman_cantor_julie_rosewald_now_getting_her_due |url-status=dead ))</ref>

Among its major programs today,((when|date=January 2024)) the congregation includes worship, youth and adult education programs, and also a major emphasis on social justice.<ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.emanuelsf.org/tikkun-tikvah-working-reform-californias-criminal-justice-system/ |title=Tikkun Tikvah - Working to Reform California's Criminal Justice System |work=Congregation Emanu-El |language=en-US |date= |access-date=2016-10-18))((self-published-inline|date=January 2024))</ref>

== Rabbinical leaders ==
((more references|section|date=January 2024))
The following individuals have served as senior [[rabbi]] of Congregation Emanu-El:
{|class="wikitable sortable"
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! Ordinal !! Officeholder !! Term start !! Term end !! Time in office !! Notes
|-
|align=center| ((nts|1)) || Julius Eckman ||align=center| 1854 ||align=center| 1855 ||align=right| ((age in years|1854|1855)) years || 
|-
|align=center| ((nts|2)) || Elkan Cohn ||align=center| 1860 ||align=center| 1889 ||align=right| ((nowrap|'''((age in years|1860|1889)) years''')) || <ref name="JW" />
|-
|align=center| ((nts|3)) || Jacob Voorsanger ||align=center| 1889 ||align=center| 1908 ||align=right| ((age in years|1889|1908)) years || 
|-
|align=center| ((nts|4)) || [[Martin A. Meyer]] ||align=center| 1910 ||align=center| 1923 ||align=right| ((age in years|1910|1923)) years || 
|-
|align=center| ((nts|5)) || ((nowrap|[[Louis Israel Newman]])) ||align=center| 1924 ||align=center| 1930 ||align=right| ((age in years|1924|1930)) years || 
|-
|align=center| ((nts|6)) || [[Irving Reichert]] ||align=center| 1930 ||align=center| 1948 ||align=right| ((age in years|1930|1948)) years || 
|-
|align=center| ((nts|7)) || Alvin Fine ||align=center| 1948 ||align=center| 1964 ||align=right| ((age in years|1948|1964)) years || 
|-
|align=center| ((nts|8)) || Meyer Heller ||align=center| 1950 ||align=center| 1963 ||align=right| ((age in years|1950|1963)) years || 
|-
|align=center| ((nts|9)) || Irving Hausman ||align=center| 1964 ||align=center| 1967 ||align=right| ((age in years|1964|1967)) years || 
|-
|align=center| ((nts|10)) || [[Joseph Asher]] ||align=center| 1967 ||align=center| 1986 ||align=right| ((age in years|1967|1986)) years || <ref>((Cite book |last=Kirschner |first=Robert |editor-last1=Rischin |editor-first1=Moses |editor-last2=Asher |editor-first2=Raphael |chapter=A Singular Elegance |title=The Jewish legacy and the German conscience |page=47 |publisher=The Judah L. Magnes Museum |location=Berkeley, CA |year=1991 ))</ref>
|-
|align=center| ((nts|11)) || Robert Kirschner ||align=center| 1981 ||align=center| 1992 ||align=right| ((age in years|1981|1992)) years || Senior rabbi from 1986
<!-- Non-encyclopedic content. See [[WP:Wikipedia is not]] * Cantor Roslyn Barak (1987–2015, Senior Cantor Emerita 2015-present) -->
|-
|align=center| ((nts|12)) || Dr. Stephen Pearce ||align=center| 1992 ||align=center| 2013 ||align=right| ((age in years|1992|2013)) years || Senior Rabbi Emeritus since 2013
<!-- Non-encyclopedic content. See [[WP:Wikipedia is not]] * Cantor Marsha Attie (1998–present) -->
|-
|align=center rowspan=2| ((nts|13)) || Beth Singer ||align=center rowspan=2| 2013 ||align=center rowspan=2| ''incumbent'' ||align=right rowspan=2| ((age in years|2013)) years || rowspan=2| Spouses
|-
| Jonathan Singer
<!-- Non-encyclopedic content. See [[WP:Wikipedia is not]] * Cantor Arik Luck (2015-present) -->
|}

In addition, the following rabbis currently serve in supporting roles in the congregation: Sydney Mintz (Associate, since 1997), [[Lawrence Kushner]] (Scholar in Residence, since 2002), Ryan Bauer (Associate, since 2007), Jason Rodich, (since 2015), and Sarah Joselow Parris (since 2019). The following rabbis have served in supporting roles, yet are no longer in current roles in the congregation: Mark Schiftan (from 1987 until 1994), Peretz Wolf-Prusan (from 1990 until 2010), Helen Cohn (from 1993 until 205), Jonathan Jaffe (from 2007 until 2014), and Carla Fenves (from 2011 until 2020).

==Notable members==
((more references|section|date=January 2024))
((Columns-list|colwidth=20em|
*[[Larry Baer]]
* Jim Bennett, father of [[Naftali Bennett]], the 13rd Prime Minister of Israel 
*[[Joseph Brandenstein]]
*[[Stephen Breyer]]
*[[Lazarus Dinkelspiel]]
*[[Dianne Feinstein]]<ref name="JW" />
*[[Donald Fisher]]
*[[Doris F. Fisher]]
*[[Aaron Fleishhacker]]
*[[Richard Goldman]]
*[[Rhoda Haas Goldman]]
*[[Evelyn Danzig Haas]]
*[[Peter E. Haas]]
*[[Walter A. Haas Jr.]]
*[[Warren Hellman]]
*[[Florence Prag Kahn]]
*[[Simon Koshland]]
*[[Philip N. Lilienthal]]
*[[Bob Lurie]]
*[[Isaac Magnin]]
*[[Raphael Peixotto]]
*[[Julie Rosewald]]
*[[Nell Sinton]]
*[[Douglas W. Shorenstein]]
*[[Theodore Solomons]]
*[[David Stern (businessman)|David Stern]]
*[[Levi Strauss]]<ref name="JW">((Cite news |date=1999-10-08 |title=Emanu-El's pedigree: a towering presence |url=https://jweekly.com/1999/10/08/emanu-el-s-pedigree-a-towering-presence/ |access-date=2023-02-03 |newspaper=J |language=en-US))</ref>
))

==References==
((Reflist))

==Further reading==
* ((cite book |author-link=Fred Rosenbaum |author=Rosenbaum, Fred |title=Visions of Reform : Congregation Emanu-El and the Jews of San Francisco 1849–1999 |publisher=Judah L. Magnes Museum |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-943376-69-1 ))
* ((cite book |author-link=Fred Rosenbaum |author=Rosenbaum, Fred |title=Architects of reform: congregational and community leadership Emanu-El of San Francisco, 1849–1980 |publisher=[[Western Jewish History Center]], [[Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum]] |year=1980 |isbn= ))
* ((cite book |author=Voorsanger, Jacob |title=The Chronicles of Emanu-El |publisher=Spaulding Press |year=1900 |isbn= ))

==External links==
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* ((Official website|http://www.emanuelsf.org/ ))

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