Ashdod Travelers guide

'Selichot' Tour 161 Parking available (Free of charge) 5 Nachal Yarmuch Street To arrange a visit: Avraham Moshe, Tel: 050-944-0901 08-867-6839 The Birkat Amalia Synagogue synagogue is located. Inside as well, it is characterized by clean contours and a restrained humble decor. The only splash of color comes from the colorful stained glass designs that are naive in style and almost remind us of a child's painting. The synagogue, which was built in the 1980s, is named after the mother of Arie Klang, who was a contractor and entrepreneur and one of the city's oldest residents (see information about Arie Klang in the route "Along the seashore : Nostalgia and the aroma of spices among the town's first houses"). It is one of the only Ashkenazi synagogues in Ashdod, if not the only one. In a city where the majority of worshipers who attend synagogue are Sephardi, it is a sort of nature reserve where the people praying there are mainly Ashkenazi, from Romania and Hungary, from Italy, the United States, Uruguay and France, and a few from Georgia and North Africa. Another fact worth mentioning is the prayer style. The prayers here are read in Hebrew in the Ahid format, which is the IDF version. The worshipers are mostly made up of those with knitted Yarmulkes, and most are professionals from the Religious Zionist stream. Although most of the worshipers are Ashkenazi, people from other communities also come for the Bible studies that take