Its main use is prayer, three times daily. In many cases, there will also be Torah-classes for grownups. Some synagogues host the occasional social function such as meetings or festive meals.
It's a synagogue Orthodox Jews worship in.
It is a synagogue which is conducted in accordance with Torah-laws.
No.
Those are seats reserved in an Orthodox Synagogue for Men Only as opposed to Women's Seats which are reserved for Women Only. In an Orthodox Synagogue, the men and women are separated.
it looks like a nomal synagogue.............................
Not an Orthodox synagogue of course, but a nice pair of slacks is definitely appropriate for a Conservative or Reform synagogue.
You can tell a Orthodox Synagogue is an Orthodox Synagogue because a Orthodox Synagogue has the seats for men on the floor at the sides and the back, and the womans seats on a balcony up top, and the reading desk and the bimah are in the centre. Other than a Liberal/Reform Synagogue because a Liberal/Reform Synagogue has the men and the women sit together, and the reading desk at the side in-front of the seats for the men and women.
Yes. But in Orthodox synagogues, only the men can dance.
Cardiff Reform Synagogue (Reform)Cardiff United Synagogue (Orthodox)Llandudno SynagogueNewport Mon Hebrew CongregationSwansea Hebrew Congregation (Orthodox)Chavurat Emak vaYa'ar (Wye)
In South Africa, like most countries aside from the USA and the UK, the Jewish communities are overwhelmingly Orthodox. Whether or not a person who attends an Orthodox Synagogue is Orthodox in his "non-synagogue activities" is purely up to the believer. So, some members of the Orthodox community may not actually be observant Jews and would appear like Reform Jews in the USA. However, they would not call themselves Orthodox, but Jews who happen to belong to an Orthodox synagogue. Actual Orthodox Jews in South Africa would be indistinguishable from Orthodox Jews in the USA.
In Orthodox synagogues, men and women are seated separately.
a shul or a bet-knesset. Non-Orthodox Jews also call it a temple.