A Synagogue in Sydney serves a small historic Jewish community which was once one of the largest ones in eastern Canada with four shuls: one in Glace Bay, one in New Waterford, one in Whitney Pier, and the one in Sydney.

Conservative Judaism enjoyed rapid growth in the first half of the 20th century, becoming the largest American Jewish denomination.

Working with this 1990s trend of diversity and institutional growth, Conservative Judaism remained the largest denomination in America, with 43 percent of Jewish households affiliated with a synagogue belonging to Conservative synagogues ( compared to 35 percent for Reform and 16 percent for Orthodox ).

The three largest Jewish denominations — Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism — maintain the belief that the Jews have been chosen by God for a purpose.

" Antioch, a coastal city in northern Syria and the third largest in the Roman world, is often mentioned as this later home of the Matthean community, but it could have been any large city in the eastern Mediterranean with large Jewish and Christian populations, and recent research points towards a location near Galilee or Judea.

In 1844, Jews constituted the largest population group in Jerusalem and by 1890 an absolute majority in the city, but as a whole the Jewish population made up far less than 10 % of the country.

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.

The Reform Judaism movement, the largest branch of Judaism in North America, has rejected the traditional view of Jewish Law on this issue.

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

With a brief interruption in the mid-15th century, Landau had a sizable Jewish community from the Middle Ages until the Nazi era, at one point the largest in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as one of its most prosperous ( many Jews were wine merchants ).

Several media entities refrain from using the term “ ultra Orthodox ”, including the Religion Newswriters Association ; JTA, the global Jewish news service ; and the Star-Ledger, New Jersey ’ s largest daily newspaper, according the New Jersey Press Association.

In the 1930s, when Lebanon was still under the French mandate, Sidon had the largest Jewish population estimated at 3, 588 with 3, 060 in Beirut.

* February 24 – The, carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-controlled Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by the Soviet submarine Shch 213, killing 768 men, women and children, with only one survivor, a 19 year old man, making it the largest exclusively civilian naval disaster of the war.

* August 22 – Twenty-three Jewish refugees from Brazil settle in New Amsterdam, forming the nucleus of what will be the second largest urban Jewish community in history, that of New York City.

It is the largest city in the West Bank and home to approximately 250, 000 Palestinians, and between 500 and 800 Jewish settlers concentrated in and around the old quarter.

The Reform Judaism movement, the largest branch of Judaism in North America, has rejected the traditional view of Jewish Law on this issue.

( 9, 049 households * 5. 9 average Haredi household ) Within the next three decades, the Haredi community is predicted ( by the Board of Deputies ) to be the largest Jewish group in the UK: in comparison with the national average of 2. 4 children per family, Haredi families have an average of 5. 9 children, and as of 2006 membership of Haredi synagogues had doubled since 1990.

Leaders of the Episcopal Church's Diocese of Utah, as well as leaders of Utah's largest Jewish congregation, the Salt Lake Kol Ami, along with three elected representatives of the city identify themselves as gay.

The county has the largest Jewish population per capita in the country, with 31. 4 %, or 90, 000 residents, being Jewish.

San Salvador is also the home of the second largest Jewish community in Central America, and home to a small Muslim community.

Thessaloniki had one of the largest ( mostly Sephardic ) Jewish communities in the world and a solid rabbinical tradition.

The largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism, to which adheres about half the population.

It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

The largest massacre was at Antioch, where 5, 000 Druze religious leaders were killed, followed by that of Aleppo.

In the United States, public school teacher unions, most notably the National Education Association ( the largest labor union in the USA ), argue against the idea of school vouchers for concern that it would erode educational standards and reduce funding, and that giving money to parents who choose to send their child to a religious or other school is unconstitutional ; however, the latter issue has been struck down by the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which upheld Ohio's voucher plan in a 5-4 ruling.

Herod the Great considerably enlarged the temple ( see Herod's Temple ), making it one of the largest religious structures in the world.

His was arguably the first, largest and most influential modern Islamic political / religious organization.

The Jesuits today form the largest single religious order of priests and brothers in the Catholic Church, although they are surpassed by the Franciscan family of first orders Order of Friars Minor ( OFM ), OFM Capuchins, and Conventuals.

The largest religious and ethnic group in the Levant is Sunni Muslim Arabs, but there are also many other groups.

With a little help from Suegar, an apparent religious fanatic, and Tris, the leader of the female prisoners, he instills order and hope in the apathetic, distrustful inmates, makes them rehearse for quick embarkation ( disguised as a food distribution procedure ), and stages one of the largest mass breakouts in history.

* 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.

The two largest religious orders received many new privileges from Honorius IV, documented in his Regesta.

The five largest religious groups by population, estimated to account for between 5 and 7 billion people, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism ( with the relative numbers for Buddhism and Hinduism dependent on the extent of syncretism ) and Chinese folk religion.

Following the disturbances, the Abbey was still the largest religious city-state in Switzerland, with over 77, 000 inhabitants.

** Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the largest male religious order of the Catholic Church

The Circus was Rome's largest venue for ludi, public games connected to Roman religious festivals.

* The current Cathedral of Reggio, re-built after the last earthquake, actually the largest religious building in Calabria.

The ancient cathedrals of England, of Northern France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany and Sicily, the Baroque cathedrals of South America, and many individual cathedrals from Italy and other parts of Europe, are among the largest and finest religious buildings.

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is the largest religious denomination, followed by the Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland.

The Bahá ' í Faith, Iran's largest non-Muslim religious minority, is not officially recognized, and has been persecuted during its existence in Iran.

The Archbishop's Palace contains a Byzantine museum containing the largest collection of religious icons on the island.

The largest religious bodies were The Southern Baptist Convention ( with 14, 727 members ) and The United Methodist Church ( with 3, 305 members ).

In recent years, the county was declared a disaster area in September 1979 due to damage from Hurricane Frederic The largest religious bodies were The Southern Baptist Convention ( with 27, 789 members ) and The Catholic Church ( with 10, 482 members ).

The largest religious bodies were The Southern Baptist Convention ( with 7, 576 members ) and The United Methodist Church ( with 1, 811 members ).