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Shavuot by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. In many Jewish communities, there is a custom to decorate homes and synagogues with flowers on Shavuot. Some synagogues decorate the bimah with a canopy of flowers and plants reminiscent of a ḥuppah, as the giving of the Torah is metaphorically seen as a marriage between the Torah and the people of Israel.
In 1890, the Jewish population of Oklahoma Territory was estimated to be about 100 people. By statehood in 1907, that number grew to about 1,000. The peak of Oklahoma Jewish population occurred in the 1920s with a total population of about 7,500. [1] In 2003, 2,300 Jews resided in Oklahoma City and 2,600 in Tulsa.
The original Hatzalah emergency medical services (EMS) was founded in Williamsburg, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, by Hershel Weber in the late 1960s. [3] His aim was to improve rapid emergency medical response in the community, and to mitigate cultural concerns of a Yiddish-speaking, Hasidic community.
New York City is home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. In 2011, according to the UJA-Federation of New York, the five boroughs of New York City proper was home to 1,086,000 Jews, representing 13% of the city's population. [4] In 2023, 960,000 Jews live in the city, nearly half of them live in Brooklyn. [5] [3] [2]
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Nearly 1,000 strangers showed up to a homeless Oklahoma City veteran's funeral. Jerry Billings was a U.S. Navy aviation machinist airman who served his country in the 1960s.
This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva ( Hebrew : ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism .
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