Adath Shalom (Ottawa)

Shabbat services are held each Saturday at the Jewish Community Campus on 31 Nadolny Sachs Private at 9:45 AM. Although there is no regular rabbi, visiting clergy to lead the services for the shabbatons and for the High Holy Days services.[2] Programs include: adult educational programs; special family programs at Sukkoth, Simchat Torah, Chanukah and Purim; adult social events; children's programming; and instructional programs to teach members how to lead services.[3]

The Jewish population of Ottawa grew from 20 families in 1889 to approximately 5,500 in 1961.[4] Adath Shalom (Ottawa) was founded in 1977 as an egalitarian Conservative synagogue by Rabbi Roy Tannenbaum who sought to establish a new congregation with more female participation.[5] Adath Shalom was officially affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in 1979. In 1979, it became a member of the Ottawa Vaad Ha'ir (Community Council). 93 individuals signed up as founding members by July 22, 1978. New members were found through a combination of word-of-mouth to those affiliated with other synagogues and advertising for unaffiliated Jews and newcomers to Ottawa in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.[6] On August 3, 1978, Adath Shalom had a general meeting and held its first election.[7]

As of July 1, 2008, each of the Founding Members: Congregation Machzikei Hadas; Congregation Beth Shalom; Agudath Israel (Ottawa); the Jewish Reform Congregation of Ottawa – Temple Israel (Ottawa); Young Israel of Ottawa; Congregation Beit Tikvah of Ottawa transferred to Jewish Memorial Gardens the cemetery lands that they had.[8]

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