Welcome to Chevra T'helim Chevra T’helim Synagogue is now the Jewish Museum & Cultural Center. This rare surviving example of Eastern European Jewish Orthodoxy is located at the main entrance to the City of Portsmouth. It is a place where visitors from home and around the world can celebrate and learn about Jewish history, faith, and culture. The Jewish Museum & Cultural Center houses artifacts and exhibits that reflect the history of the Hampton Roads Jewish community. On display is an eighteenth-century Torah Scroll rescued from a synagogue in Trebíc, Czechoslovakia. That synagogue was a victim of the Holocaust. _____________________ Tours & Lectures: Saturdays, Sundays, Monday 2 - 4 pm  _____________________ Jewish Museum & Cultural Center 607 Effingham Street - P.O. Box 7962 Portsmouth, VA 23707 757-391-9266 For information: info@jewishmuseumportsmouth.org 757-391-9266

Welcome to Chevra T'helim

Chevra T’helim Synagogue is now the Jewish Museum & Cultural Center.

This rare surviving example of Eastern European Jewish Orthodoxy is located at the main entrance to the City of Portsmouth.

It is a place where visitors from home and around the world can celebrate and learn about Jewish history, faith, and culture.

The Jewish Museum & Cultural Center houses artifacts and exhibits that reflect the history of the Hampton Roads Jewish community.

On display is an eighteenth-century Torah Scroll rescued from a synagogue in Trebíc, Czechoslovakia. That synagogue was a victim of the Holocaust.

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Tours & Lectures:

Saturdays, Sundays, Monday

2 - 4 pm

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Jewish Museum & Cultural Center

607 Effingham Street - P.O. Box 7962

Portsmouth, VA 23707

757-391-9266

757-391-9266