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Some anti-Semitic events and acts have occurred, mainly during the 2006 Lebanon War such as vandalism of Jewish cemeteries. But in the main, Brazil's Jewish population is highly educated, with 68% of the community holding university degrees, employed mainly in business, law, medicine, engineering, and the arts. Most own businesses or are self ...
Between 1921 and 1942 worldwide immigration to Brazil fell by 21%, but Jewish immigration to Brazil increased by 57,000. This was in response to anti-immigration legislation and immigration quotas passed by the United States, Argentina, Canada and South Africa, persisting even after the crisis of Jews under the Third Reich became clear.
At first, these Jewish Christians, originally the central group in Christianity, were not declared unorthodox but they were later excluded from the Jewish community and denounced. Some Jewish Christian groups, such as the Ebionites , were accused of having unorthodox beliefs, particularly in relation to their views of Christ and gentile converts.
The predominant religion in Brazil is Christianity, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. In 1891, when the first Brazilian Republican Constitution was set forth, Brazil ceased to have an official religion and has remained secular ever since, though the Catholic Church remained politically influential into the 1970s.
During the 1960s, there was a new wave of immigration to Manaus, formed mainly by Jewish businessmen in southern Brazil and Jewish communities in Latin America. [1] The construction of the current 1962 synagogue was financed by the local entrepreneurs Isaac Benayon Sabbá , Samuel Benchimol , José Benzecry and Moysés Benarrós Israel.
The exterior of the museum, in 2006. In 1630, Moses Cohen Henriques led a Jewish contingent to Itamracá, an island off Brazil.From there they settled in Recife. [3] After his retirement circa 1636 from privateering for the Dutch and perhaps pirating, Cohen Henriques assisted his brother, Abraham Cohen, in establishing the Kahal Zur Israel synagogue. [3]
Jewish groups across US, including North Jersey Hebrew school, targeted in bomb hoax. Gannett. Jim Beckerman and John Bacon, NorthJersey.com. December 17, 2023 at 8:38 PM.
The fall of the Dutch colony of Recife in Brazil to the Portuguese prompted the Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam, the first group of Jews to flee to North America. 1669–1670 Jews expelled from Vienna by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and subsequently forbidden to settle in the Austrian Hereditary Lands.