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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. A yeshiva usually is led by a rabbi with the title "Rosh Yeshiva" (Head of the Yeshiva).
Jewish University of Colorado (JUC) [6] 1980 The only messianic jewish university which is fully accredited and tuition-free. It is funded by the Messianic Jewish Fellowship International, [7] a religious society under the law of the State of Colorado (CO Rev Stat § 7-50-101 [2020]). Consequently, JUC is a strictly ecclesiastical not-for ...
The Jesuit mission in the United States dated back to 1634. However, it was not until 1833 that the first province in the United States was established: the Maryland Province. William McSherry was elected as the first provincial superior, whose territory included the entire United States except for the territory of the Missouri mission. [19]
Leopold Cohn, a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant to the United States who became a Christian, founded the Brownsville Mission to the Jews in 1894. The Brownsville Mission later expanded to the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York and became the Williamsburg Mission to the Jews from 1897 until 1924. In 1897, the Williamsburg Mission headquarters ...
Delegation of Jewish Federations of North America in Israel. The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), formerly the United Jewish Communities (UJC), [5] is an American Jewish umbrella organization for the Jewish Federations system, representing over 350 independent Jewish communities across North America that raise and distribute over $2 billion annually, including through planned giving ...
A variety of other languages are still spoken within some American Jewish communities that are representative of the various Jewish ethnic divisions from around the world that have come together to make up all of America's Jewish population. Many of America's Hasidic Jews, being exclusively of Ashkenazi descent, are raised speaking Yiddish ...
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives; JBI International; JewBelong; Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation; Jewish Book Council; Jewish Community Relations Council; Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas; Jewish country club; Jewish Farm School; Jewish Industrial Removal Office
The American Board of Missions to the Jews (ABMJ) was during the 1930s and 1940s the largest Christian mission proselytizing to Jews in America. [1] In 1984, the organization changed its name to Chosen People Ministries. In 1973, messianic evangelist Moishe Rosen left the organization to create Hineni Ministries, which is now known as Jews for ...