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This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva ( Hebrew : ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism .
The first Jewish federation was founded in Boston in 1895 as Associated Jewish Philanthropies. [2] [3] Cincinnati formed its federation, United Jewish Social Agencies, the next year. Chicago founded its federation in 1900 followed by St. Louis. [3] Federations were soon formed in many other cities with large Jewish populations.
In 2011, according to the UJA-Federation of New York, the five boroughs of New York City proper was home to 1,086,000 Jews, representing 13% of the city's population. [4] In 2023, 960,000 Jews live in the city, nearly half of them live in Brooklyn .
1949 Jewish fraternity and sorority gathering in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, U.S. This is a list of historically Jewish fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada. [1] [2] These organizations exemplify (or exemplified) a range of "Jewishness"; some are historically Jewish in origin but later became strictly secular. Some ...
Groups are planning to gather to show support for people in Israel, where a third day of war is underway.
By 1905 the Jews of St. Louis numbered about 40,000 in a total population of about 575,000. Today's Jewish population in the St. Louis area exceeds 60,000 in a metropolitan population of about 3,000,000 people. [6] St. Louis County, MO holds nearly all of Missouri's Jewish community. 7% of St. Louis County's population is Jewish.
Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRC) are Jewish local advocacy arms in the United States. [10] Most major centers of Jewish populations have a JCRC, and are either constituent departments of the local Jewish federation, totally independent, or functioning as a joint office. Typically, the board of directors of a JCRC includes local ...
The Florida Holocaust Museum (St. Petersburg) The Frisch Family Holocaust Memorial Gallery (Jacksonville) The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation (Miami Beach) The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center (Dania Beach) [11] The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of SWFL