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  2. History of the Jews in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] [5] Today the Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom and the Conservative synagogue Kesher Zion share a Temple in Wyomissing Hills, PA. The Orthodox Jewish element, consisting entirely of Russian and Polish immigrants or their descendants, combined in 1887 and formed Congregation Shomrei Habrith. Their house of worship was located on North 8th ...

  3. History of the Jews in Pittsburgh - Wikipedia

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    In 2002, Jewish households represented 3.8% of households in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. [1] As of 2017, there were an estimated 50,000 Jews in the Greater Pittsburgh area. [2] In 2012, Pittsburgh's Jewish community celebrated its 100th year of federated giving through the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. [3]

  4. Jewish population by city - Wikipedia

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    New York City is home to the largest Jewish community outside of Israel. In 2011, according to the UJA-Federation of New York, the five boroughs of New York City proper was home to 1,086,000 Jews, representing 13% of the city's population. [4] In 2023, 960,000 Jews live in the city, nearly half of them live in Brooklyn. [5] [3] [2]

  5. The Jewish vote could play a huge role in 2024. Pennsylvania ...

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    Nowhere is that more apparent than in Pennsylvania, the swing state with the largest Jewish population — about 300,000 voting-age Jews in a state President Joe Biden won by roughly 80,000 votes ...

  6. History of the Jews in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    The paper went defunct in 1869. Other now defunct newspapers include The Jewish Index (1872-1873) and The Jewish Record (1875-1886), published under the editorship of Alfred T. Jones. [26] There were several daily papers published in Yiddish in the past, with the most notable being the Jewish Evening Post.

  7. In battleground Pennsylvania, undecided Jewish voters could ...

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    In an election that will likely be decided on the margins, the votes of Jewish Pennsylvanians could be key to determining who wins the commonwealth’s 19 electoral votes – and with it, the ...

  8. Religion in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Metropolitan Philadelphia's Jewish population, the sixth-largest in the United States, was estimated at 206,000 in 2001 and almost 300,000 in 2009. [3] (though this number includes many unaffiliated Jews). Jewish traders were operating in southeastern Pennsylvania long before William Penn.

  9. History of the Jews in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, many Jewish immigrants arrived from Europe. For example, many German Jews arrived in the middle of the 19th century, established clothing stores in towns across the country, formed Reform synagogues, and were active in banking in New York.