Congregation Or Chadash

Congregation Or Chadash (lit. 'New Light') was a Reform Jewish LGBT-oriented congregation that was located at 5959 North Sheridan Road, Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1975 as a gay support group for Jews, and was holding religious services by 1976. In 1977 it moved into its first building, a former Unitarian church on West Barry Avenue, and hired its first permanent rabbi, Suzanne Griffel, in 1997. Griffel was succeeded as rabbi by Larry Edwards, and Or Chadash moved a new location, which shared 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. In 2016, Or Chadash merged into another Reform congregation, Temple Sholom, with Or Chadash remaining the name of the Temple's LGBTQ+ community group.

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