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B'nai B'rith International (/ b ə ˌ n eɪ ˈ b r ɪ θ / bə-NAY BRITH; [1] from Hebrew: בְּנֵי בְּרִית, romanized: b'né brit, lit. 'Children of the Covenant') [2] is a leading American 501(c)(3) nonprofit [3] Jewish service organization and was formerly a cultural association for German Jewish immigrants to the United States. [4]
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 ...
The Independent Order Brith Sholom (Hebrew: "Covenant of Peace") is a Jewish fraternal organization, [1] founded in 1905 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. According to the Jewish Communal Register of New York City, 1917-1918 , in that year, Brith Sholom had 378 lodges nationwide that included 52,596 members, and had 88 lodges in ...
In 1959, B'nai B'rith became the first major American Jewish organization to hold a convention in Israel. [ 9 ] In 1978, six weeks after the signing of the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, B'nai B'rith was the first Jewish group to visit Egypt at the invitation of President Anwar Sadat .
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Brith Shalom should be the forum in which the problem is discussed and investigated. [5] Ruppin held a senior position within the Jewish Agency as Director of the Palestine Land Development Company. The group disintegrated by the early 1930s due to the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the increased necessity to encourage jewish immigration. [6]
The organization presents the following mission statement, as stated in the preamble to its constitution: B'nai Brith has taken upon itself the mission of uniting person of the Jewish faith in the work of promoting their highest interest and those of humanity; of developing and elevating the mental and moral character of the people of our faith; of inculcating the purest principles of ...
The first formation of B'nai B'rith was in 1843 by a group of New York Jews of German origin who established a group known as Bundes Bruder (Brothers' League). While the early philanthropic efforts of the group were directed only within the United States, in the early 1880s, in response to the pogroms in Tsarist Russia, efforts were made to establish B'nai B'rith chapters in Europe.