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A sofer at work, Ein Bokek, Israel A sofer sews together the pieces of parchment A sofer, sopher, sofer SeTaM, or sofer ST"M (Hebrew: סופר סת״ם, "scribe"; plural soferim, סופרים) is a Jewish scribe who can transcribe Sifrei Kodesh (holy scrolls), tefillin (phylacteries), mezuzot (ST"M, סת״ם, is an abbreviation of these three terms) and other religious writings.
Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (JCUA) is a nonprofit organization based in Chicago that mobilizes the Jewish community of the region to advance racial and economic justice. JCUA partners with diverse community groups across the city and state to combat racism , antisemitism , poverty and other forms of systemic oppression, through grassroots ...
Job applicants with Jewish names or Jewish-linked prior employers were less likely to get responses for administrative assistant gigs, a troubling new study by the Anti-Defamation League Wednesday ...
The institute was founded in 1924 as Chicago's College of Jewish Studies. [6] [7] In 1970, its name changed from College of Jewish Studies to Spertus College of Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. In 1973, this became Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. In 2013, the name changed to Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and ...
Jen Taylor Friedman is a soferet (Jewish ritual scribe). On September 9, 2007, she became the first woman known to have completed a Torah scroll. Taylor Friedman's sefer Torah was commissioned by United Hebrew Congregation, a Reform temple in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] Taylor Friedman was born in Southampton, England, and educated at Oxford. [2]
Anshe Emet Synagogue was established in 1873 in a building on Sedgwick Avenue in Chicago. [2] In 1876, the congregation rented its first permanent meeting place on Division Street and hired Rabbi A.A. Lowenheim, a member of Central Conference of American Rabbis, [3] as religious leader. [4]
The Chicago Rabbinical Council (or cRc) is the largest regional Orthodox rabbinical organization in America, located in Chicago, Illinois.The cRc is a non-profit offering a wide variety of Jewish services, including kosher product supervision and kosher certification.
By 1930, Chicago's Jewish population had grown to 275,000, making it the third largest Jewish community in the world after New York City and Warsaw. [8] Eastern European Jews made up 80% of the city's Jewish population, which accounted for 8% of Chicago's total residents at the time.