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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 Golf Manor Synagogue, also known as Congregation Agudas Israel, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 6442 Stover Avenue, in Golf Manor, a village near Cincinnati, in Hamilton County, Ohio, in the United States.
Similar services were held for the next three years. Newcomers continued to arrive, the early settlers being mostly Jews from England. The first Jewish child born in Cincinnati, Frederick A. Johnson (June 2, 1821), was the son of the above-mentioned David Israel Johnson and his wife, Eliza.
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 Jewish Hospital has earned accolades and distinction from various health ranking services, and is a former member of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, likewise a nationally recognized organization. [7] [8] In 2009, Mercy Health, also in Cincinnati, purchased the hospital for approximately $108 million. Under an agreement with the ...
The FBI and police in Cincinnati are investigating the damaging of nearly 180 gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries. The tombstones, some dating back to the late 1800s, likely were knocked over ...
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]
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.