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A member of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Congregation Beth Sholom is a hub of the Bay Area Jewish community. Beth Shalom built a synagogue on Fourteenth Avenue and Clement Street in 1934 after initially meeting in a church on Fourth Avenue near Geary.
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, originally founded as the Young Men's Hebrew Society in 1877, was formally incorporated in 1930. [16] In the late 1930s, refugees arrived in San Francisco from Germany, Austria, Poland, Spain and Czechoslovakia, and the center offered them free memberships and English classes.
Friedman joined JFCS in 1979. During Friedman's leadership at JFCS, the organization has received national recognition for its programs that include Parents Place, a resource center for new parents and children, Seniors-At-Home, a model continuum of care for frail elderly, and the Center for Children and Youth, providing clinical and educational programs for children, families, clinicians, and ...
"Jewish Community". Encyclopedia of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Museum and Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 6, 2016. Eskenazi, Joe (February 25, 2005). "On shaky ground: Sherith Israel needs $20 million to retrofit – or will close doors". j. Vol. 109, no. 8. SF, CA: SF Jewish Community Publications ...
In 1944, the National Community Relations Advisory Council (later renamed the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) was formed as an umbrella organization of 14 local JCRCs, the ADL, the two AJCs, and the Jewish Labor Committee, in the United States. [10] [12] In 2000, the JCPA counted among its membership 120 JCRCs. [11]
During the Gold Rush in 1849, a small group of Jews held the first High Holy Days services in a tent in San Francisco; it was the first Jewish service on the West Coast of the United States. [2] This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851.
San Francisco lesbian bar Peg's Place [55] [56] was the site of an assault in 1979 by off-duty members of the San Francisco vice squad, [57] an event which drew national attention to other incidents of anti-gay violence and police harassment of the LGBT community [58] and helped propel a (unsuccessful [59]) citywide proposition to ban the city ...
On the eve of January 1, 1965, several homophile organizations in San Francisco, California - including Mattachine, the Daughters of Bilitis, the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, and the Society for Individual Rights - held a fund-raising ball for their mutual benefit at California Hall on Polk Street. [33]