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In 2002, Jewish households represented 3.8% of households in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. [1] As of 2017, there were an estimated 50,000 Jews in the Greater Pittsburgh area. [2] In 2012, Pittsburgh's Jewish community celebrated its 100th year of federated giving through the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. [3]
Aleph Institute (North East US) was founded in 1991 by Rabbi Moishe Mayir Vogel, [1] following the founding of the Aleph Institute in Florida in 1981. He was sent by Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson to ensure the Jews incarcerated in the North East were provided for, with the responsibly stretching from Virginia northwards, and Ohio eastwards. [2]
The first Jewish confirmation in Pittsburgh was held in 1862 for six girls and one boy. In 1863, Isaac M. Wise, a founder of Reform Judaism in America, came to Pittsburgh. He had a great impact, and shortly after his visit, the congregation voted to adopt some Reform practices, including the Reform prayer book.
The Nelson family rented out the house to tenants, the first of whom were Hugo Rosenberg, a merchant, and Pauline Hanauer Rosenberg. Pauline founded the National Council of Jewish Women, its Pittsburgh section, and other Pennsylvania sections while living in the house, and she was also the national president of the organization in 1905. [7]
Inside the Hillel Jewish University Center of Pittsburgh on Sept. 24. Hillel is a century-old mainstream Jewish organization at more than 600 colleges and universities nationwide that supports ...
Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation (Hebrew: עֵץ חַיִּים – אוֹר לְשִׂמְחָה [1]) is a Conservative Jewish synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The congregation moved into its present synagogue building in 1953.
A 2021 Pew Research Center survey found a wide split in partisanship among Jewish voters depending on which movement they aligned with. Orthodox Jews favored Republicans over Democrats by 75% to ...
The mission of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation is to support and foster the provision of healthcare services, healthcare education, and when reasonable and appropriate, medical and scientific research, and to respond to the medical, custodial and other health-related needs of elderly, underprivileged, indigent and under-served persons in both the Jewish and general community throughout ...