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The congregation was founded in 1882 as the Reform congregation, "Temple Gates of Hope", by a group of German Jews. [2] After several mergers, the congregation took the Hebrew name "Agudat Yesharim", and later petitioned the state of New York to change the official name of the congregation to "Park Avenue Synagogue" in 1923.
Central Synagogue (formerly Congregation Ahawath Chesed Shaar Hashomayim; colloquially Central) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue at 652 Lexington Avenue, at the corner with 55th Street, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
Oorah Kiruv Rechokim, Inc (Hebrew: עורה קירבו רחוקים; "awaken and bring in those who are far"), better known as Oorah is an incorporated Orthodox Jewish outreach organization, founded in 1980 "with the goal of awakening Jewish children and their families to their heritage."
Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was born on 24 June 1962, in Mexico City, within a secular Mexican Jewish family. [9] [10] She is the second child of the marriage between chemist Carlos Sheinbaum Yoselevitz and biologist Annie Pardo Cemo. [11] [12] Carlos Sheinbaum was of Ashkenazi Litvak descent, with his father emigrating from Lithuania in 1928.
His paternal grandfather, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, was Jewish, and the rest of his family is of Christian background, including Episcopalian and Congregationalist. [1] Sulzberger is a fourth-generation descendant of Adolph Ochs, who bought the New York Times in 1896. [2] The Times has been managed and published by Adolph Ochs's family since that ...
Zinati is a member of a Jewish family who have lived for centuries in Peki'in, reportedly since the time of the Second Temple. [2] Zinati, the last Jewish woman in Peki'in, was honoured for her work on the 70th Independence Day in 2018, and her family home is run as a heritage site by the Education Department of the World Zionist Organization ...
At the time, the Israeli authorities expropriated and demolished all the houses in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem in order to build a new neighborhood, and hence the family members were able to collect only compensation, which they felt they were not allowed to collect because of Baruch Mizrachi's will. Instead it was agreed ...
Mishpacha frequently addresses social problems. For example, it has addressed issues such as the shababniks ( Haredi street youth ) and violence in the family ; and has waged a battle against educational institutions’ discrimination against Mizrahim and the newly religious .