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Dotted across Ohio are communities that were once host to thriving Jewish populations. Though some of the members of those communities have moved on, they have left traces of their culture and ...
The Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program (1988) was created for outstanding rabbinical students and graduate students in Jewish education and Jewish communal service programs. In its early years, the Foundation established a grants program for academic institutions of all types to build and improve training programs for Jewish community ...
The Cleveland Jewish News is the local Jewish newspaper headquartered in Beachwood. The Mandel Jewish Community Center, located in Beachwood, is a center point of the Jewish community. The Workmen's Circle of Cleveland is a Jewish lodge group. The Friendship Circle Organization for children with special needs has a center in Pepper Pike.
Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew: גִּיּוּר, romanized: giyur or Hebrew: גֵּרוּת, romanized: gerut) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion and become members of the Jewish ethnoreligious community. It thus resembles both conversion to other religions and naturalization.
The history of Jews in Ohio dates back to 1817, when Joseph Jonas, a pioneer, came from England and made his home in Cincinnati.He drew after him a number of English Jews, who held Orthodox-style divine service for the first time in Ohio in 1819, and, as the community grew, organized themselves in 1824 into the first Jewish congregation of the Ohio Valley, the B'ne Israel.
It claims to represent 2.2 million, as over a third of adult American Jews, including many who are not synagogue members, state affinity with Reform, making it the largest Jewish denomination. The UAHC was a founding member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism , of which the URJ is the largest constituent by far.
It is a successor to two Cleveland Anglo-Jewish newspapers – The Jewish Independent (established in 1906) and the Jewish Review & Observer (which had as its roots the Hebrew Observer, founded in 1889). [5] The Cleveland Jewish News had as its first issue a 32-page tabloid on October 30, 1964. [2] [4] [5] Arthur Weyne was its first editor. [4]
The community is home to many types of Jewish Institutions including schools, temples, and organizations. JewishColumbus is a leading organization and is a result of the merger of the Columbus Jewish Federation and the Columbus Jewish Foundation [5] Synagogues in the region include: Ahavas Sholom - Orthodox, Bexley [6]