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The Jewish population in New York went from about 80,000 in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920 [18] This new mix of cultures changed what was a middle-class, acculturated, politically conservative community to a working-class, Yiddish-speaking group with a varied mix of ideologies including socialism, Zionism, and religious orthodoxy.
Jews comprise approximately 10% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel.As of 2020, over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs of New York City, [1] and over 1.9 million Jews lived in the New York metropolitan area, approximately 25% of the American Jewish population.
The Sephardic Center of Mill Basin, also called the Sephardic Congregation of Mill Basin, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 6208 Strickland Avenue in Brooklyn, in New York City, New York, United States.
The Jewish Center of Brooklyn followed shortly thereafter, with a center that housed a gymnasium, kindergarten, library, classrooms, dining room and synagogue. [ 3 ] The congregation was founded in 1914 on West 5th Street in Coney Island (originally named Temple Adath Israel), and when building the community centre in 1929–1930, renamed ...
Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn. In the 1920s, Nathan Jonas donated additional land to the hospital for a park, but it was later used to build a new wing, which opened in 1928, giving the hospital a 650-bed capacity. Jonas, a founder of the hospital, raised much of its funding from Abraham Abraham, a founder of the Abraham & Straus department store ...
In 1956 Binyamin Kamenetsky, who had taught at the Brooklyn location in the 1940s, [1] opened Yeshiva Toras Chaim of the South Shore, [5] "the first yeshiva on Long Island" [4] [6] with Kamenetsky as its dean. [5] [7] "Seven years later, the two Jewish schools merged and moved to a new campus on William Street in Hewlett."
An Oregon man was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly targeting Jewish hospitals and care centers in New York City and Long Island with fake bomb threats, according to prosecutors.
It was the first Orthodox Jewish elementary school for girls in North America. [2] The name Shulamith (Hebrew: שולמית) is a feminine form of the Hebrew name Solomon, which loosely translates to "peace". As of July 2010, the organization was divided into two separate institutions which operate independent schools in Brooklyn and Long Island.