Adas Israel Congregation is an Orthodox congregation with a membership of 75.
In other villages, Orthodox congregations have agreed to share the church, with each religion holding its services at a different time.
"This was an Orthodox congregation that exposed itself to a different point of view," he said.
Besides the American soldiers congregation there was also an Orthodox congregation.
By the time of his retirement in 2010, the congregation had grown to 600 to 700 families, making it the largest Orthodox congregation in Canada.
Beth Israel is the oldest Orthodox congregation in the New Orleans region, and its most prominent.
The congregation is considered to be the oldest Orthodox congregation still existing in Chicago.
On appeal, lawyers for the Jewish plaintiffs maintained that most Orthodox congregations were too poor to afford lots that size.
It is an Orthodox congregation.
Their zoning restricts synagogues to two-acre lots, properties too large for most Orthodox congregations to afford.