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Temple Meir Chayim is a historic former Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 4th and Holly Streets in McGehee, Arkansas, in the United States.The building operated as a synagogue between 1947 and 2016; and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
He resigned from the National Jewish Welfare Board in 1970. Eichhorn lived in Satellite Beach, Florida and wrote a number of books. He was known primarily for research in the areas of interfaith marriage and religious conversion. Eichhorn died on July 16, 1986, of a heart attack at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Florida. [2] [3] [4]
In 1927, Norman Smorgon opened a kosher butcher shop [16] in Melbourne on 366 Lygon Street, Carlton. [3] [17] Carlton was the centre of a Yiddish community [18] that was growing with influxes of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. [19] For this Jewish community of up to 15 000 people, there were only 2 butcher shops in Melbourne supplying ...
John Eldon Miller (March 2, 1929 – June 18, 2014) was an American politician and businessman.. Born in Melbourne, Arkansas, Miller received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Arkansas State University.
Harris Rosen, 85, American hotelier, investor, and philanthropist (Rosen Jewish Community Center), complications from surgery. [727] Shashi Ruia, 80, Indian conglomerate industry executive, co-founder of Essar Group. [728] Kuldip Singh, 92, Indian jurist, judge of the Supreme Court (1988–1996). [729] Eddie Stobart, 95, British businessman .
Rabbi John Simon Levi AC (born 1934) is an Australian Progressive rabbi and author. Upon ordination in 1960, he began serving Melbourne's Temple Beth Israel.He became senior rabbi of the congregation from 1974 until 1997, when he became rabbi emeritus. [3]
Building on his ordination as a maggid by Shlomo Carlebach, [14] Buxbaum established a program to train women and men as maggidim (plural of maggid). [15] [16] Graduates include Shoshana Litman, described as Canada's first ordained female Jewish storyteller, [17] and Tamir Zaltsman, who states that he is the first ordained Russian-speaking maggid. [18]
Ruth Gruber was born in Brooklyn, New York, one of five children of Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Gussie (Rockower) and David Gruber. [2] She dreamed of becoming a writer and was encouraged by her parents to obtain higher education.