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Jewish summer camps began near the end of the 19th century, when the Jewish population in the United States increased via immigration. It was a way for Jewish children of Eastern European immigrants to assimilate and "Americanize" at a time when summer camps excluded Jews from their ranks, as well as a way to allow children living in the city to experience the countryside.
The JCC Association is the continental umbrella organization for the Jewish Community Center movement, which includes more than 350 JCCs, YM–YWHAs, and camp sites in the U.S. and Canada, in addition to 180 local JCCs in the former Soviet Union, 70 in Latin America, 50 in Europe, and close to 500 smaller centers in Israel.
Several Jewish cultural and educational programs, along with child, teen and adult programs are held at the JCC. In 1942, the JCC Camps at Medford was established. [1] Operated by the Katz JCC, the camp consists of 120 acres and is the largest Jewish day camp in North America. [2] Philanthropist Lewis Katz named the center in memory of his ...
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 Overland Park shootings were two shootings that occurred on April 13, 2014, at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, both located in Overland Park, Kansas United States. A total of three people were killed in the shootings, two of whom were shot at the community center and one ...
The Shalom Institute is a centre for educational excellence in the post-secondary school segment of the Jewish community, promoting Jewish identification, learning and development. It runs Shalom College , a residential college at the University of New South Wales , in Sydney , Australia .
A former synagogue of the Herzl Congregation is now the Odessa Brown Neighborhood Health Clinic. Congregation Beth Shalom, Seattle [1] Temple Beth Shalom, Spokane This merges the earlier Temple Emanu-El (who founded the state's first synagogue, opened September 12, 1892) and Keneseth Israel [1]: 14–15
Temple Israel is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 4901 Providence Road, in the Shalom Park district of South Charlotte, North Carolina, in the United States. One of six synagogues in Charlotte, Temple Israel serves more than 650 member families.