Congregation Or Chadash

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5961-5979 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60660, USA

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N41° 59' 26.6676" W87° 39' 19.3068"   (41.990741, -87.655363) Start navigation »

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Congregation Or Chadash (Hebrew: אוֹר חָדָשׁ‬, Hebrew for "New Light") is a Reform LGBT-oriented congregation in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1975 as a gay support group for Jews, and was holding religious services by 1976. It moved into its first building, a former Unitarian church on West Barry Avenue in 1977, and hired its first permanent rabbi, Suzanne Griffel, in 1997.
Griffel was succeeded as rabbi by Larry Edwards, and Or Chadash moved to its current location, which it shares with another synagogue and a Jewish day school, in 2003. In October 2010, Or Chadash was thought to be one of the two synagogues targeted in the 2010 cargo planes bomb plot.
As of 2017, Cindy Enger is rabbi and the congregation's hazzan is Judith Golden.

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