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The Elizabeth/Hillside Jewish Community consists of five shuls, two Minyan S’fardim, a mikvah, a school system from nursery through post-high school, educating almost one thousand students, kosher restaurants, a bakery, a Shomer Shabbos YM/WHA and a k’hilla of more than five hundred families, all within a half hour of Manhattan and Brooklyn. However, these statistics are but a small part of the story. The Community was founded in 1881, but became what it is today during the six decades of the Torah leadership of Rabbi Pinchas M. Teitz, zichrono livracha, who set out in 1935 to establish a modern Torah Community when he accepted Elizabeth’s rabbinate. His vision was to build the Community around the Jewish Educational Center, schools and shuls. That vision has been realized and expanded, with two geographical areas, one, the Elmora Hills section, housing the elementary school and Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy for boys, adjacent to the JEC Elmora shul. The other, surrounding the Adas Israel, is the Westminster section of Elizabeth/Hillside, home to Bruriah High School for Girls and Yeshivas Be’er Yitzchak, post high school Bais Medrash and Kollel. Although the Community has two living areas, they are close enough to one another to allow Shabbos visits, and one eruv encompasses both. Elizabeth is a remarkable place to live, with the amenities of a city, but the suburban housing and feeling of Community. |
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