A two-year effort to renovate New Synagogue’s Palm Beach location is complete.
The Modern Orthodox temple founded in 2000 by Palm Beach resident and Slim-Fast founder S. Daniel Abraham recently unveiled its new sanctuary, rabbi’s study and social area.
The spaces were rebuilt and redesigned from their former modern look into a Colonial style inspired by Touro Synagogue of Newport, Rhode Island. Built in 1763, Touro is the oldest synagogue in the United States and is a National Historic Site.
New Synagogue is housed in the penthouse suite of the Palm Beach Hotel, 235 Sunrise Ave.
“It was our vision to … create a space that resonated deeply with our American and our Jewish values,” Rabbi Abraham Unger, the temple’s executive director, told the Daily News. “It was inspired by the Touro Synagogue in Newport, which was an early Colonial-era synagogue founded by Spanish and Portuguese Jews who came to Colonial America. We wanted that feel of being deeply rooted in the American story while also speaking strongly to a loyalty to Jewish tradition.”