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For years, Schakowsky eyed a run in Illinois's 9th congressional district, intending to run whenever incumbent Democrat Sidney R. Yates opted to retire. [8] Yates had represented the 9th district since 1949 (except for one term due unsuccessful run for the Senate in 1962), [9] Schakowsky had explored runs in 1992, 1994, and 1996 under the belief each time that Yates might retire.
San Francisco Bay Area. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. "Churches and temples". Discovering San Francisco. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. "Congregation Sherith Israel records, 1851–2003". Bancroft Library Online Archive of California at UC Berkeley. "Sherith Israel records, 1851–2000". Judah L. Magnes Museum at UC ...
Congregation Sherith Israel (San Francisco, California) E. ... The Kitchen (Jewish community) This page was last edited on 10 October 2023, at 11:36 (UTC). ...
Congregation Emanu-El on Sutter Street (1866–1926), San Francisco. The history of the Jews in San Francisco began with the California Gold Rush in the second half of the 19th-century. The San Francisco Bay Area has the fourth largest Jewish population in the U.S. [1] behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles.
In 1869, he emigrated to the United States, where he served as rabbi of New York City's (then) Orthodox Congregation Shaare Zedek. He moved from New York to San Francisco in 1874 to take the position of rabbi at Beth Israel. [12] Streisand was succeeded by Aron J. Messing in 1877 or 1878, [a] and died in San Francisco in January 1879. [12]
San Francisco, active in grassroots Jewish organisations Bernice Manocherian: 2004–2006 [80] Howard Friedman: 2006–2010 [81] Lillian Pinkus: Started 2016 [80] Betsy Berns Korn: 2020–present [82] [83] Former AIPAC vice president and former NFL employee
In April 2021, several Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives led by Representative Jan Schakowsky wrote a letter to the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, urging him to make use of tools against antisemitism beyond the IHRA definition, including the Jerusalem Declaration and Nexus Document.
During the Gold Rush in 1849, a small group of Jews held the first High Holy Days services in a tent in San Francisco; it was the first Jewish service on the West Coast of the United States. [1] This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851.