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After doing this with Lancaster, he has traced different Jewish communities across the state, creating a written history for each using newspaper archives, first-person accounts and other research.
The Wexner Graduate Fellowship Program (1988) was created for outstanding rabbinical students and graduate students in Jewish education and Jewish communal service programs. In its early years, the Foundation established a grants program for academic institutions of all types to build and improve training programs for Jewish community ...
Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew: גִּיּוּר, romanized: giyur or Hebrew: גֵּרוּת, romanized: gerut) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion and become members of the Jewish ethnoreligious community. It thus resembles both conversion to other religions and naturalization.
The Cleveland Jewish News is the local Jewish newspaper headquartered in Beachwood. The Mandel Jewish Community Center, located in Beachwood, is a center point of the Jewish community. The Workmen's Circle of Cleveland is a Jewish lodge group. The Friendship Circle Organization for children with special needs has a center in Pepper Pike.
Jewish students at major universities told lawmakers on Thursday they feel unsafe on campus amid a surge in antisemitism. At a roundtable hosted by the House Education and Workforce Committee ...
Since 2016, about 3,000 people convert to Judaism every year in Israel through programs approved by the Chief Rabbinate. Between 1996 and 2021, 101,609 individuals have successfully completed approved conversion programs, with most being Soviet immigrants who were not halakhically Jewish (oftentimes only having one Jewish grandparent). [86]
The history of Jews in Ohio dates back to 1817, when Joseph Jonas, a pioneer, came from England and made his home in Cincinnati.He drew after him a number of English Jews, who held Orthodox-style divine service for the first time in Ohio in 1819, and, as the community grew, organized themselves in 1824 into the first Jewish congregation of the Ohio Valley, the B'ne Israel.
The Anti-Defamation League recently released a report that found at least 28 assaults on Jewish students or bystanders at or near universities during the 2023-24 academic year ending in May. Cases ...