During his time in the former Soviet Union he founded the Jewish University, both in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

A year later, Herzl founded the Zionist Organization ( ZO ), which at its first congress, " called for the establishment of a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law ".

However, according to The Jewish Alchemists, Maria the Jewess was an ancient alchemist who lived in Alexandria, which would seem to contradict the tradition that she was Moses ' sister: Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 334 BC, while Moses is thought to have lived around 1450-1200 BC.

* Commentary ( magazine ), a US public affairs journal, founded in 1945 and formerly published by the American Jewish Committee

In 1886, prominent Sephardic Rabbis Sabato Morais and H. Pereira Mendes founded the Jewish Theological Seminary ( JTS ) in New York City as a more traditional alternative to Hebrew Union College.

Some of these were founded by Jewish converts themselves, like the Community of Our Lady of Zion, which was composed of nuns and ordained priests.

Guest's paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and Guest's paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.

There have also been non-coercive outreach and missionary efforts such as the Church of England's Ministry Among Jewish People, founded in 1809.

While the Roman church was presumably founded by Jewish Christians, the exile of Jews from Rome in AD 49 by Claudius resulted in Gentile Christians taking leadership positions.

One theory on the formation of the Essenes suggested the movement was founded by a Jewish high priest, dubbed by the Essenes the Teacher of Righteousness, whose office had been usurped by Jonathan ( of priestly but not Zadokite lineage ), labeled the " man of lies " or " false priest ".

Following a large donation from the Jewish German American banker James Loeb who had at one time been a patient, and promises of support from ' patrons of science ', the German Institute for Psychiatric Research was founded in 1917 in Munich.

The first modern Jewish settlement in Palestine, Petah Tikva, was founded in 1878, followed by Rishon LeZion ( 1882 ).

In 1897, the Zionist Organisation was founded and the First Zionist Congress proclaimed its aim " to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law.

Rabbi Eliyahu Baal Shem of Worms founded the 17th-Century " Macheneh Yisrael-Nistarim " Hidden Mystics movement to bring encouragement to the Jewish masses.

A beloved Rabbi, he influenced generations of congregants and visiting students and, together with his wife who was an educator, founded Jewish day schools in both Springfield and Buffalo.

His son, Hermann Christian Wittgenstein — who took the middle name " Christian " to distance himself from his Jewish background — married Fanny Figdor, also Jewish, who converted to Protestantism just before they married, and the couple founded a successful business trading in wool in Leipzig.

The NMJL was founded by Jewish players and is considered a Jewish organization.

Kahane founded both the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in the USA and Kach (" This is the Way "), an Israeli political party.

Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in New York City in 1968.

Kaplan began his career as an Orthodox rabbi at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York City, was a founder in 1912 of the Young Israel movement of Modern Orthodox Judaism, and was the first rabbi hired by the new ( Orthodox ) Jewish Center in Manhattan when it was founded in 1918.

She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls.

* 1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.

Israel was founded as a Jewish state in 1948, and the country's Basic Laws describe it as both a Jewish and a democratic state.

Henry Clay helped establish and became president in 1816 of the American Colonization Society, a group that wanted to establish a colony for free American blacks in Africa ; it founded Monrovia, in what became Liberia, for that purpose.

The colony began with Carl Peters, an adventurer who founded the " Society for German Colonization " and signed treaties with several native chieftains on the mainland opposite Zanzibar.

The American Colonization Society ( in full, The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America ), founded in 1816, was the primary vehicle to support the return of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa.

At first, Allen supported the idea of American free blacks emigrating to Africa ; the American Colonization Society founded in 1817 proposed to aid free blacks in resettling there.

Interested in the work of the American Colonization Society ( ACS ), he founded the newspaper The African Intelligencer and wrote about their mission.

When he returned to Berlin he founded the Society for German Colonization ( Gesellschaft für Deutsche Kolonisation ) pressure group for the acquisition of colonies.

Colonization attempts soon followed, as Tyumen, the first known town after Ermac ’ s death, was founded in 1586.

German East Africa had been acquired largely through the efforts of the German Colonization Society, founded by Karl Peters.

Disturbed by reports that Catholic immigrants in eastern cities were suffering from social and economic handicaps, Ireland and Bishop John Lancaster Spalding of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, founded the Irish Catholic Colonization Association.

This last was founded by Dr. Shūmei Ōkawa, professor of the Colonization Academy, and radical defender of expansionism and military armed revolution at home.

He founded the American Colonization Society while in Washington.

It was founded by the Calgary Colonization Company whose purpose was to promote settlement by demonstrating the grain growing potential of the area.

In December 1832, the Port Cresson colony was founded in what is now Buchanan, by black Quakers of the New York and Pennsylvania Colonization Societies ..

A month later, a new colony called Bassa Cove was founded by black Quakers of the Young Men ’ s Colonization Society of Pennsylvania.

Originally a branch of the American Colonization Society that founded Liberia in 1822, Maryland State Colonization Society decided to establish a new settlement of its own that could accommodate its emigrants and named it Maryland In Africa on February 12, 1834.

The municipality was founded during the early Spanish Colonization of the Bicol Peninsula.

The American Colonization Society ( founded in 1817 ) was one such group.

The Society for German Colonization ( Gesellschaft für Deutsche Kolonisation, GfdK ) was founded on March 28, 1884, by Dr. Karl Peters.

The Republic of Liberia was founded by free African slaves from America who formed the American Colonization Society and returned to establish a republic on African soil.

Colonization of the area started in the 16th century, and the village of São Salvador de Campos de Goytacazes was founded on May 29, 1677.

Originally a branch of the American Colonization Society that had founded Liberia in 1822, the Maryland State Colonization Society decided to establish a new settlement of its own that could accommodate its emigrants.