History of the previous hit Shaarey Tikvah next hit Congregation

previous hit Shaarey Tikvah next hit Congregation was founded in 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio, when a group of recently arrived German Jewish refugees held Jewish New Year services in one of their homes. On October 20, 1940, the group met to formally establish a congregation which they called previous hit Shaarey Tikvah next hit, Hebrew for "gates of hope."

In its first ten years of existence, the congregation met in four different buildings: the Cleveland Sorosis Club, Virginia Hall, a building at Superior Avenue and East 123rd Street and one at Euclid Avenue between East105th and East 107th Streets. In 1950 the congregation purchased the Heights Presbyterian Church at 3040 Mayfield Road at Preyer Road in Cleveland Heights. In 1970 the congregation merged with Hillcrest Synagogue (B'nai Israel) and moved to its building on Lander Road in Mayfield Heights. The merged congregation was called Mayfield Hillcrest-previous hit Shaarey Tikvah next hit B'nai Israel. In 1986 the congregation again moved, to its present location, 26811 Fairmount Boulevard in Beachwood.

previous hit Shaarey Tikvah next hit associated with the Conservative movement in 1957. Rabbis who served the congregation were Rabbi Hans Zucker, 1940-1942; Dr. Manfred Strauss, 1942-1946; Dr. Enoch H. Kronheim, 1946-1957; and Rabbi Jacob Shtull, 1958-1994. The current rabbi is Rabbi Gary Robuck.