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Jewish youth organizations based in Canada (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Jewish organizations based in Canada" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
Atlanta, GA -- Jewish Interest Free Loan of Atlanta, Inc. Baltimore, MD-- Hebrew Free Loan Association of Baltimore; Boca Raton, FL-- Ruth Rales Jewish Family Service (Boca Raton) Boston, MA -- Jewish Family & Children Service; Buffalo, NY-- Hebrew Benevolent Loan Association (Buffalo) Cincinnati, OH -- Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
Local Jewish community organizations founded in the early 20th century included the Young Mens Hebrew Association (1909), the Ladies Aid Society (1907; later Schara Tzedeck Ladies' Auxiliary and the Sisterhood), B'nai B'rith (1910), the Hebrew Aid and Immigrant Society (1910), the Zionist and Social Society (1913), and the Hebrew Free Loan ...
The main decision at that meeting was the founding of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society to assist Jewish settlers and refugees in Canada. They also passed motions expressing the Jewish community's loyalty to Canada and others declaring their support for the Balfour Declaration.
HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society [5]) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees. It was established on November 27, 1881, originally to help the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants to the United States who had left Europe to escape antisemitic persecution and violence. [1]
Gemach (Hebrew: גמ"ח, plural, גמחים , gemachim, an abbreviation for גמילות חסדים , gemilut chasadim, "acts of kindness") is a Jewish free-loan fund that subscribes to both the positive Torah commandment of lending money and the Torah prohibition against charging interest on a personal loan to a fellow Jew.
HIAS, established in 1903 as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, says it helps some 1.4 million refugees and displaced people annually, including providing meals, mental health services and legal ...
As Jewish immigration declined, most landsmanshaft functions faded into the background, but the organizations nevertheless continued as a way of maintaining ties to life in Europe as well as providing a form of life insurance, disability and unemployment insurance, and subsidized burial.