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During the Gold Rush in 1849, a small group of Jews held the first High Holy Days services in a tent in San Francisco; it was the first Jewish service on the West Coast of the United States. This group of traders and merchants founded Congregation Emanu-El sometime in 1850, and its charter was issued in April, 1851.
March 31, 2010. [1] Congregation Sherith Israel ( transliterated from Hebrew as "loyal remnant of Israel ") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in San Francisco, California, in the United States. Founded in 1851 during California’s Gold Rush period, it is one of the oldest synagogues in the United States.
Website. www .fidf .org. Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) (in Hebrew: ארגון ידידי צה״ל בארה״ב) is an organization established in 1981 dedicated to the men and women serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), wounded veterans, and the families of fallen soldiers. Headquartered in New York City, Friends of the ...
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) is a non-collecting museum at 736 Mission Street at Yerba Buena Lane in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The museum, which was founded in 1984, is located in the historic Jessie Street Substation, which was gutted and its interior redesigned by Daniel Libeskind , along ...
The history of the Jews in San Francisco began with the California Gold Rush in the second half of the 19th-century. The San Francisco Bay Area has the fourth largest Jewish population in the U.S. [1] behind the New York area, southeast Florida and metropolitan Los Angeles. Jewish San Franciscans played a significant role in the economic and ...
The Koret Foundation is a private foundation based in San Francisco, California. Its mission is to strengthen the Bay Area and support the Jewish community in the U.S. and Israel through grantmaking to organizations involved with education, arts and culture, the Jewish community, and the Bay Area community. The foundation takes an approach of ...
The Holocaust Library and Research Center of San Francisco, opened in 1979. A lasting memorial in San Francisco: "Holocaust," which was dedicated in Lincoln Park in November 1984, was created by the sculptor George Segal. The Holocaust Center of Northern California is in collaboration with the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service.
The Kitchen is a non-denominational Jewish congregation located in San Francisco, California, in the United States. The congregation was founded by Rabbi Noa Kushner in 2011 following her work at Congregation Rodef Sholom, as part of an effort to "to create something that filled a gap, that met needs that weren’t being met." [1]