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PJ Library logo. PJ Library is a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, [1] a North American Jewish non-profit organization based in Agawam, Massachusetts.It was created in December 2005 as a Jewish engagement and literacy program for Jewish families with young children.
Jewish summer camps began near the end of the 19th century, when the Jewish population in the United States increased via immigration. It was a way for Jewish children of Eastern European immigrants to assimilate and "Americanize" at a time when summer camps excluded Jews from their ranks, as well as a way to allow children living in the city to experience the countryside.
Orientation: The façade, or entrance, of the Samaritan synagogue, typically faces Mount Gerizim, which is the holiest site to Samaritans, while Jewish synagogues are oriented towards Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
Compared to 8% of all Jewish adults, 15% of those ages 18 to 29 identified with a nonwhite category. At the camp, each morning begins with a lesson on global Jewry.
Oorah Kiruv Rechokim, Inc (Hebrew: עורה קירבו רחוקים; "awaken and bring in those who are far"), better known as Oorah is an incorporated Orthodox Jewish outreach organization, founded in 1980 "with the goal of awakening Jewish children and their families to their heritage."
[11] The synagogue purchased the building next door, to its west, to add classrooms in 2007, and in 2009 secured a grant for repairs to the envelope of the 19th century sanctuary and annex. [ 12 ] Between 2007 and 2019, Society Hill Synagogue raised more than $4 million in order to purchase its neighoring building and undertake major ...
Jewish education has been valued since the birth of Judaism.In the Hebrew Bible Abraham is lauded for instructing his offspring in God's ways. [3] One of the basic duties of Jewish parents is to provide for the instruction of their children as set forth in the first paragraph of the Shema Yisrael prayer: “Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.
During the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s, a movement began in the United States to create modernized Jewish day schools which were more secular and emphasized general studies alongside Jewish learning, as well as Liberal Jewish schools. [8] Between 1917 and 1939, over 23 Jewish day schools were founded in the New York Metropolitan area ...