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Congregation Kol Emes
Hebrew:קהילת קול אמת ד'ריטשמאנד
Religion
Affiliation	Orthodox Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	Synagogue
Status	Active
Location
Location	4811 Patterson Avenue,Richmond,Virginia
Country	United States
Location inVirginia
Coordinates	37°34′18″N77°30′4″W / 37.57167°N 77.50111°W /37.57167; -77.50111
Architecture
Established	1964(as a congregation)
Completed	1964

Congregation Kol Emes (Hebrew:קהילת קול אמת ד'ריטשמאנד,lit. 'Voice of truth'), also known asYoung Israel of Richmond, is anOrthodoxJewishsynagogue located at 4811 Patterson Avenue, inRichmond,Virginia, in the United States.

Constituted and founded in 1964, it is one of the oldest active Jewish congregations in Virginia, the fourth oldest active congregation in Richmond, and housing the oldest activemikvah in Richmond. It is a member synagogue of theNational Council of Young Israel and theOrthodox Union.^[1]

It is a very small congregation, compared to the larger and more successful congregations in the city, such as Keneseth Beth Israel.

Congregation Kol Emes is a continuation of Orthodox synagogues in Richmond dating back to 1789.^[2] It has been at the center of the continuation of Orthodox Jewish life in Richmond:

In 1964... brothers Abraham and Emil Dere spearheaded the founding of the Jewish Academy of Richmond, which, shortly thereafter became Congregation Kol Emes, with the guidance ofHaRavNachman Bulman, who at the time was a Rov in theindependent city ofNewport News. At the time, once again, Kol Emes housed the onlyMikvah in Richmond (until theChabad Mikvah opened in the 1980s) and the only shul in Richmond with aMechitzah (until Keneseth Beth Israel moved to its present location in the 1970s). In 1965, the Richmond Hebrew Day School, presently Rudlin Torah Academy, was founded in the Kol Emes building, with personal blessings fromGedolei Yisrael.^[2]

• Richmond Jewish Foundation
• Virginia Holocaust Museum

• "Congregation Kol Emes".Young Israel Of Richmond. n.d. Archived fromthe original on December 31, 2008.
• "Home page".Congregation Kol Emes. 2018. Archived fromthe original on August 9, 2018.

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