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The Jewish Community High School of the Bay (commonly known as JCHS) is a coeducational, college preparatory high school located in the Western Addition Neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Founded in 2001, JCHS is a pluralistic Jewish high school.
City College of San Francisco, one of the largest community colleges in the country; in Ingleside, with several extension campuses; San Francisco State University, in the southwest corner of the city near Lake Merced and with a downtown campus since 2007 [1] University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, located downtown at its ...
San Francisco's Jewish population was the second largest Jewish community in the country by 1880. [4] Home of Peace Cemetery, also known as Navai Shalome, was established in 1889 for Congregation Emanu-El; [8] [9] and Hills of Eternity Memorial Park cemetery was established in 1889 for Congregation Sherith Israel.
Halakha (/ h ɑː ˈ l ɔː x ə / hah-LAW-khə; [1] Hebrew: הֲלָכָה, romanized: hălāḵā, Sephardic:), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho (Ashkenazic: [haˈlɔχɔ]), is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.
An opinion poll released in March 2016 by the Pew Research Center found high support for a halachic state among religious Israeli Jews.The poll found that 86% of Israeli Haredi Jews and 69% of non-Haredi Orthodox Jews support making halakha Israel's legal code, while 57% of traditional Jews and 90% of secular Jews oppose such a move. [3]
Jewish universities and colleges in the U.S. include: American Jewish University , formerly University of Judaism and Brandeis-Bardin Institute (merged), Los Angeles, California. Gratz College , Melrose Park, Pennsylvania
Hebrew Academy of San Francisco was a private Jewish day school, operating in San Francisco, California, from 1969 to 2016. It was founded by Rabbi Pinchas Lipner , and had the only Orthodox Jewish high school in San Francisco during that time.
The Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, opened in 1979. A lasting memorial in San Francisco: "Holocaust," which was dedicated in Lincoln Park in November 1984, was created by the sculptor George Segal. The Holocaust Center of Northern California is in collaboration with the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.