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B'nai B'rith International (/ b ə ˌ n eɪ ˈ b r ɪ θ / bə-NAY BRITH; [1] from Hebrew: בְּנֵי בְּרִית, romanized: b'né brit, lit. 'Children of the Covenant') [2] is a leading American 501(c)(3) nonprofit [3] Jewish service organization and was formerly a cultural association for German Jewish immigrants to the United States. [4]
Religious Liberty was commissioned by B'nai B'rith and dedicated "to the people of the United States" as an expression of support for the Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. It was created by Moses Jacob Ezekiel , a B'nai B'rith member and the first American Jewish sculptor to gain international prominence.
At Beber's urging, B'nai B'rith took up the issue of officially adopting AZA as its junior auxiliary at their national convention in 1925. Supported by Henry Monsky, who himself was vying for the B'nai B'rith presidency, the convention adopted a committee report affirming its approval of the organization under B'nai B'rith's jurisdiction ...
The B'nai B'rith Lodge on South Union Avenue in Westlake served as a hub for the Jewish community and later as the heart of the labor movement in L.A. L.A. City Council votes to allow the ...
B'nai B'rith Israel was founded in 1888 (137 years ago) (), with the Jerusalem Lodge being the first B'nai B'rith lodge in Israel. [2] [1] Among the lodge's early activities was the founding of a public library in Jerusalem in 1892. [3] [4] The library, known as Midrash Abarbanel, was the city's first free public library. [5]
Frank Dimant (born 1945 or 1946) [1] was executive vice president and CEO of B'nai Brith Canada, and was also CEO of the organization's Institute for International Affairs and the League for Human Rights, from 1978 to 2014. He also was the publisher of B'nai Brith's newspaper, Jewish Tribune from 1985 until September 2014. [1] [2]
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple, known from 1862 to 1933 as Congregation B'nai B'rith, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard, in the Wilshire Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1862, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles. [4] [5]
B'nai Jacob Synagogue is a historic Conservative synagogue located at the intersection of Nissley and Water Streets, Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. History [ edit ]