Dothan, Alabama
I love the temples and the history behind them. When I was growing up, it was pretty much just Southern Baptists and Methodists, plus a lot of really rural Christian denominations - pentecostals, Primitive Baptists, etc.. In the big city near us (Dothan), there was apparently this other world - some Catholics, a few Mormons, even some Jews. I didn't associate with non-evangelicals as friends until I went off to university in Birmingham. In my eyes, that was a mega city! My junior year I met some Uzbek Jews who had emigrated to the US and settled in Birmingham. That was when I first heard of the JCC. Since then, I have just enjoyed traveling and learning. I shed the fundamentalist aspects of religion, but still can appreciate the cultural roots of it all and the beautiful architecture. I guess I am more of a freethinking person today.
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Hi Allen,
I believe that the spelling with the hyphen is quite typical.
Arguably one of the most famous temple “Emanu-El”s of them all is on the upper east side of Manhattan. Notice its spelling.
https://www.emanuelnyc.org/about-us/our-history/
Phillip
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