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Starting in 1654, when the first Jewish communal settlement in New Amsterdam (modern-day New York) began despite Governor Peter Stuyvesant's attempts to ban the first Jewish people in North America from the settlement (until he would be overruled), and for the next 250 years; the Jewish community promised local governments they would not become a burden, by taking care of their own community.
An example is the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. [12] After a couple of years of lower staff layoffs in February 2010, new CEO Jerry Silverman laid off three senior vice presidents that made an estimated $750,000 to $1 million combined. [13] JFNA declined to run the decennial National Jewish Population Survey in 2010 due to re ...
New York 1974–Present 21,000 [1] New Jersey Jewish News: English New Jersey 1946–2020 24,000 [2] Weekly The Jewish Week: English New York 1875–Present 55,000 [3] Weekly UJA funded Yated Ne'eman: English Monsey, New York 1987–Present 20,000 [4] Weekly Der Yid: Yiddish 1953–Present 25,000 [5] Weekly Westchester Jewish Life: English ...
The United Hebrew Trades (Yiddish: Fareynikte Yidishe Geverkshaftn) was an association of Jewish labor unions in New York formed in the late 1880s.The organization was inspired by and modeled upon the United German Trades (German: Deutsche Vereignte Gewerkshaften), formed decades earlier by German immigrants to the United States who were active in the German, and later the German-American ...
Julie Platt was elected chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America in 2022. She is the second woman to be the chair for the organization, which oversees 146 Jewish federations across the United States and Canada that distribute over $3 billion each year.
The United Jewish Appeal (UJA) was a Jewish philanthropic umbrella organization that existed from its creation in 1939 until it was folded into the United Jewish Communities, which was formed from the 1999 merger of United Jewish Appeal (UJA), Council of Jewish Federations and United Israel Appeal, Inc.
UJA-Federation of New York (United Jewish Appeal – Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, Inc.) is the largest local philanthropy in the world. [1] Headquartered in New York City , the organization raises and allocates funds annually to fulfill a mission to “care for Jews everywhere and New Yorkers of all backgrounds ...
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 ...