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The New Jewish Home (formerly Jewish Home Lifecare among other prior names) is an American nonprofit older adult health care system based in New York City. The organization serves older adults of all religions and ethnicities at its three campuses in Manhattan , The Bronx , and Mamaroneck in Westchester County .
The Jewish population in New York went from about 80,000 in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920 [18] This new mix of cultures changed what was a middle-class, acculturated, politically conservative community to a working-class, Yiddish-speaking group with a varied mix of ideologies including socialism, Zionism, and religious orthodoxy.
The Jewish Board was created through the successive mergers of New York-area Jewish charitable organizations. The United Hebrew Charities was established in 2005 as an umbrella organization for the Hebrew Benevolent Fuel Association, the Ladies Benevolent Society of the Congregation of the Gates of Prayer (organized by Temple Shaaray Tefila), the Hebrew Relief Society (formed by Congregation ...
Jews comprise approximately 10% of New York City's population, making the Jewish community the largest in the world outside of Israel.As of 2020, over 960,000 Jews lived in the five boroughs of New York City, [1] and over 1.9 million Jews lived in the New York metropolitan area, approximately 25% of the American Jewish population.
The Freehold Jewish Center, also referred to as "Congregation Agudath Achim", is an unaffiliated Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Freehold, New Jersey, in the United States. The congregation was founded in 1911 and it completed its first synagogue building by 1916, and its current building in 1957, with an additions to the current ...
Sutton Place Synagogue, also called the Jewish Center for the United Nations, is a Traditional synagogue and congregation located at 225 East 51st Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.
Congregation Beth Israel, commonly referred to as the West Side Jewish Center or, in more recent years, the Hudson Yards Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 347 West 34th Street, in the Garment District of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, [1] [3] in the United States.
The Home of Old Israel was originally conceived as a "Home for old men and women" for members of the Society of Khal Chasidim. [1] A building was purchased at 204 Henry Street in July 1922 from Joseph and Goldie Rothman for $75,000, to be used for this purpose. [2] The home was officially opened in March 1924, with more than 2,500 Jews in ...