 Over the years, there has been a gradual re-introduction of some of the traditional rituals and forms of worship abandoned by the synagogue's early leaders.In the 1930s and 1940s the synagogue began to accommodate the different traditions of an increasing number of congregants that were refugees from Europe.The greater impetus for traditional rituals also came from the context of the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 (Fox 2011).