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Founded in 1956 as the Charleston Hebrew Institute in downtown Charleston, adjacent to Brith Sholom Beth Israel, Addlestone Hebrew Academy has been located on the Jewish Community Center campus west of the Ashley since 1987. Teaching students from preschool through eighth grade with a dual-curriculum in secular and Jewish studies, AHA moved into a new […]

The Center for Jewish Life in Mount Pleasant, an initiative of Chabad of Charleston and the Lowcountry, opened this 16,000-square-foot facility in 2016. Situated on three acres set back from the street, landscaped by Katie Duncan, the building was designed by the local firm McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, with due attention to minimizing waste, incorporating

Started in 2006 as the West Ashley Minyan (WAM), an independent Orthodox prayer group, Congregation Dor Tikvah was incorporated in 2012. For the first few years of its official existence, Dor Tikvah shared its space with Addlestone Hebrew Academy and the Charleston Jewish Federation, all as part of the Jewish Community Center Campus (JCC). When

Berith Shalome, later called Brith Sholom, was organized circa 1854—the first Ashkenazic congregation in South Carolina and one of the first in the South. With membership primarily from Prussia and Poland, Berith Shalome was known as the “German and Polish,” or simply the “Polish” synagogue. The congregation continued meeting through the Civil War in rented

Founded in 1770 and chartered in 1785, the College of Charleston has become a major regional center of Jewish activity. Jews have attended the College since the early nineteeth century; in 1855, the trustees accommodated Jewish students by excusing them from mandatory chapel attendance. The Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program, inaugurated in 1984, supports four faculty