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SEPTA bus: 17, 33, 38, 44, 48. Philly PHLASH. Website. www.theweitzman.org. The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History ( The Weitzman) is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum at 101 South Independence Mall East (S. 5th Street) at Market Street in Center City Philadelphia. It was founded in 1976.
Secular leadership. Following the Renaissance and the Enlightenment in Europe (with its Jewish "extension" the Haskalah movement, which led to much modern-day assimilation into the cultures of their native countries), the variety of Jewish practice grew, with a widespread adoption of secular values and life-styles.
Yes. Website. emanuelnyc .org. Congregation Emanu-El of New York is the first Reform Jewish congregation in New York City. It has served as a flagship congregation in the Reform branch of Judaism since its founding in 1845. The congregation uses Temple Emanu-El of New York (built in 1928–1930), one of the largest synagogues in the world.
The World Jewish Congress ( WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, [ 1 ] the World Jewish Congress's main purpose is to act as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people".
Masada was last occupied during the Byzantine period, when a small church was established at the site. [27] The church was part of a monastic settlement identified with the monastery of Marda known from hagiographical literature. [28] This identification is generally accepted by researchers. [29]
The Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, also called "Esnoga", was built in 1675. At that time it was the largest synagogue in the world. Apart from the buildings surrounding the synagogue, it has an area of 1,008 m 2 (10,850 sq ft), is 19.5 meters (64 ft) high. It was built to accommodate 1,227 men and 440 women.
First they came ... Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. " First they came ... " ( German: Zuerst kamen sie ...) is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
The Jewish Museum is an art museum and repository of cultural artifacts, housed at 1109 Fifth Avenue, in the former Felix M. Warburg House, along the Museum Mile on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The first Jewish museum in the United States, as well as the oldest existing Jewish museum in the world, it contains the largest ...