`` Meet the Artist '' is the invitation issued by members of the Greater Philadelphia Section of the National Council of Jewish Women as they arrange for an annual exhibit and sale of paintings and sculpture at the Philmont Country Club on April 8 and 9.

The event is the sixth on the annual calendar of the local members of the National Council of Jewish Women.

The initial draft of the declaration, contained in a letter sent by Rothschild to Balfour, referred to the principle " that Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish people.

Reuben Breed ( Episcopal ), Michael Lodsin ( Baptist ), Brigadier Thomas Johnson ( Salvation Army ), Ludmila K. Foxlee ( YWCA ), Athena Marmaroff ( Woman's Christian Temperance Union ), Alexander Harkavy ( HIAS ), and Cecilia Greenstone and Cecilia Razovsky ( National Council of Jewish Women ).

* Elimination of the Jewish National Home in Palestine: The Einsatzkommando of the Panzer army Africa, 1942 by Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers

* First Jewish player elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1956.

* Member of the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( 1996 ).

From 1920, the Va ' ad Leumi ( or Jewish National Council, or JNC ) was the main institution of the Jewish community (" Yishuv ") within the British Mandate of Palestine.

The final draft of the declaration was typed at the Jewish National Fund building following its approval earlier in the day.

After telling the audience " I shall now read to you the scroll of the Establishment of the State, which has passed its first reading by the National Council ", Ben-Gurion proceeded to read out the declaration, taking 16 minutes, ending with the words " Let us accept the Foundation Scroll of the Jewish State by rising " and calling on Rabbi Fishman to recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.

According to the 2001 edition of the National Jewish Population Survey, in the United States ' Jewish community — the world's second largest — 4. 3 million Jews out of 5. 1 million had some sort of connection to the religion.

* Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity

Unquestionably, however, the primary purpose of the Mandate, as expressed in its preamble and its articles, is to promote the establishment of the Jewish National Home.

These institutes are the Jewish Oral Traditions Research Center and the National Voice Archives ( the Phonoteca at the Jewish National and University Library ).

* Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library in Hebrew.

* Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library

* National Jewish Museum Sports Hall of Fame – inducted in 1992.

At the end of World War II, the National Jewish Welfare Board had a matzo factory ( according to the American Jewish Historical Society, it was probably the Manischewitz matzo factory in New Jersey ) produce matzo in the form of a giant " V " for " Victory ," for shipment to military bases overseas and in the U. S., for Passover seders for Jewish military personnel.

Young Morris, who, while attending the University of Pennsylvania, also taught and edited a paper, found time to write Henrietta twenty-page letters on everything that engaged his interest, from the acting of Sarah Bernhardt in Philadelphia to his reactions to the comments of `` Sulamith '' on the Jewish reform movement being promulgated by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

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

The Jewish University is the first degree-granting institution of Jewish studies in the former Soviet Union.

* Columbia / Barnard Hillel, a Jewish student organization at Columbia University

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $ 500, 000 to the faltering JTS.

After a substantial gift from Los Angeles philanthropist Ruth Ziegler, a new rabbinical school was formed at the American Jewish University ( then University of Judaism ) in Bel Air, California.

Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at American Jewish University

* The Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, at the non-denominational American Jewish University in Los Angeles ;

* American Jewish University

Many Jewish academics and intellectuals studied and taught at CUNY in the post-World War I era when Ivy League universities, such as Yale University, discriminated against Jews.

University of Chicago Professor Peter Novick, whose work Finkelstein described as providing the " initial stimulus " for The Holocaust Industry, asserted in the July 28, 2000 Jewish Chronicle ( London ) that the book is replete with " false accusations ", " egregious misrepresentations ", " absurd claims " and " repeated mis-statements " (" A charge into darkness that sheds no light ").

Born in Brooklyn, Kushner was educated at Columbia University and later obtained his rabbinical ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary ( JTS ) in 1960.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

Rabbi Norman Lamm ( the Chancellor, Rosh Yeshiva of the yeshiva ", and former president of Yeshiva University, a major Modern Orthodox Jewish institution ) advocated that some ( although not all ) homosexuals should be viewed as diseased and in need of compassion and treatment, rather than willful rebels who should be ostracized.

On the other hand, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of the University of Judaism ( now the American Jewish University ) in Los Angeles had previously stated that it will immediately begin admitting gay and lesbian students as soon as the law committee passes a policy that sanctions gay ordination.

Rabbi Bradley Artson, Dean of the Rabbinic School at American Jewish University claims to have studied every reference he could find to homosexual activity mentioned in ancient Greek and Latin writers.

* Touro University Gay-Straight Alliance: The GLBT student group for the largest Jewish sponsored university in the world.

* Alpert, Rebecca, Like Bread on a Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition Columbia University Press, New York, 1997.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Neusner was educated at Harvard University, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( where he received rabbinic ordination ), the University of Oxford, and Columbia University.

In addition to his scholarly activities, Neusner has been heavily involved in the shaping of Jewish and Religious Studies in the American University.

The wholesome activities were to be provided by many organizations including the YMCA, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Library Association, and the Playground and Recreation Association -- private societies which voluntarily performed the job that was taken over almost entirely by the Special Services Division of the Army itself in World War 2.

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* Flavius Josephus at Jewish Virtual Library

* History of Women as Rabbis from the Jewish Virtual Library

http :// www. jewishvirtuallibrary. org / jsource / Judaism / reconstruction. html, Jewish Virtuel Library, 2001.

In 2006, the Jewish National and University Library at Hebrew University put on an exhibit commemorating the 900th anniversary of Rashi's death ( 2005 ), showcasing rare items from the library collection written by Rashi, as well as various works by others concerning Rashi.

These titles refer to a legendary story, according to which seventy or seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria.

* Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts, Jewish National and University Library

On 14 September 1943, Corfu was bombarded by the Luftwaffe ; these bombing raids destroyed churches, homes, whole city blocks, especially in the Jewish quarter Evraiki, and a number of important buildings, such as the Ionian Parliament, the Municipal Theatre, the Municipal Library and others.

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* The Battle of Tours 732, from the Jewish Virtual Library.

* Shimon Peres biography at the Jewish Virtual Library

History museums include the National Constitution Center, the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia History, the National Museum of American Jewish History, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the state of Pennsylvania and The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania and Eastern State Penitentiary.

The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides ' Thirteen Principles Reappraised The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ; 2004, ISBN 1-874774-90-0.

* Acre's History ( Jewish Virtual Library )

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* The Development of the Gas-Van from the Jewish Virtual Library

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According to the Jewish Virtual Library, one common interpretation of the practice of having three pieces of matzah on a Seder plate is that they represent " Kohen, Levi and Yisrael " ( i. e., the priests, the tribe of Levi, and all other Jewish people ).