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Congregation Dorshei Emet ( or "Seekers of Truth Synagogue") is a Reconstructionist synagogue in Hampstead, Quebec. It was founded in 1960 by Lavy Becker, who served as volunteer rabbi. Ron Aigen was hired as the congregation's first paid rabbi in 1976, and Heather Batchelor was hired as the first cantor in 2009. Dorshei Emet constructed its first synagogue building in 1967. The congregation soon outgrew this structure, and built a larger one on the same site in 2003. , Dorshei Emet had close to 500 member households. It was the only Reconstructionist synagogue in Quebec, and the oldest in Canada. ==Early history== The Reconstructionist movement's first congregation in Canada was founded in 1960 as the Reconstructionist Synagogue of Montreal by Rabbi Lavy Becker, in time for the High Holy Days.〔(Congregation Dorshei Emet website ). Retrieved January 26, 2011.〕〔Skolnik, Fred; Berenbaum, Michael (eds.) "Becker, Lavy M.", ''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', Volume 3, 2007, p. 246.〕〔Arnold, Janice. , ''Canadian Jewish News'', August 12, 2004.〕〔(Founding Rabbi Lavy Becker ), Dorshei Emet website. Retrieved January 26, 2011.〕 Born in 1905 in Montreal, Becker attended high school in Montreal, and studied Talmud at Yeshiva College (today Yeshiva University) in New York. He graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in 1926, and in 1930 was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, where he was strongly influenced by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, the creator of Reconstructionist Judaism.〔 Becker was the driving force behind a number of synagogues; he had previously helped found the Orthodox Young Israel of Montreal (in 1921), and been the founding rabbi of the Conservative Congregation Beth-El in Mount Royal, Quebec (in 1951).〔〔 He also helped organize Toronto's first Reconstructionist synagogue, Congregation Darchei Noam, in 1962,〔Olitzky, Kerry M.; Raphael, Marc Lee. ''The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook'', Greenwood Press, 1996, (p. 375. ) ISBN 978-0-313-28856-2.〕 and Plantation, Florida's Ramat Shalom Reconstructionist congregation in 1975.〔Olitzky, Kerry M.; Raphael, Marc Lee. ''The American Synagogue: A Historical Dictionary and Sourcebook'', Greenwood Press, 1996, (p. 106. ) ISBN 978-0-313-28856-2.〕 The Reconstructionist Synagogue of Montreal originally resembled a ''chavurah'', and worshiped in a number of different locations.〔〔(RECONSTRUCTIONIST SYNAGOGUE “DORSHEI EMET.” - 1965-1996 ), – R – Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives - Collection Guide, CJCC National Archives website. Retrieved January 18, 2011.〕〔(Synagogue History ), Dorshei Emet website. Retrieved January 26, 2011.〕 The synagogue's Torah scrolls came from Egypt, Morocco and Trinidad; Becker was instrumental in acquiring them.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Congregation Dorshei Emet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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