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The World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and is often simply referred to as 770. [1] The synagogue, located under 784 and 788 Eastern Parkway, has been subject to a dispute between the Agudas Chasidei Chabad (the umbrella organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement) and the Gabbaim, who are associated ...
Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Hellenistic culture and religion. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (modern-day Turkey), the two main Greek urban settlements of the Middle East and North ...
Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation; Jewish Big Sisters; Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services; Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island; Jewish Theater of New York; Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation; Jews for Racial and Economic Justice; JQY
(The Center Square) – A group of majority Jewish professors from the City University of New York are challenging their state’s Taylor Law that forces them to be under the representation of a ...
The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education (CIJE) [1] was granted funding to give guidance and assistance to Jewish educational institutions. The organization's present focus is on STEM [ 2 ] and they operate their own science competitions for students in co-ed schools, Orthodox all-boys schools, [ 1 ] and all-girls schools. [ 3 ]
In 2015, a letter to the New York City Department of Education from 52 parents, former students and teachers naming specific schools ultimately had the effect, and the city, in a rare move in the history of nonpublic schools in New York, especially yeshivas, launched an investigation. The probe stretched eight years due to an accommodating ...
UJA-Federation of New York (United Jewish Appeal – Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Inc.) is the largest local philanthropy in the world. [1] Headquartered in New York City , the organization raises and allocates funds annually to fulfill a mission to “care for Jews everywhere and New Yorkers of all backgrounds ...
Footsteps was founded in December 2003, by Malkie Schwartz, a former Chabad Hasid from Crown Heights, while enrolled as a student at Hunter College in New York City. According to Schwartz, 20 people showed up to the first meeting, announced on flyers around the Hunter campus and through word of mouth. [ 4 ]