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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 ...
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.
Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco, California is one of the two oldest Jewish congregations in California, and one of the largest Jewish congregations in the United States. A member of the Union for Reform Judaism, Congregation Emanu-El is a significant gathering place for the Bay Area Jewish community.
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 ...
Temple Sinai (officially the First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland [8]) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 2808 Summit Street (28th and Webster Streets) in Oakland, California, in the United States. Founded in 1875, it is the oldest Jewish congregation in the East San Francisco Bay region. [9] [10]
San Francisco Art Institute. / 37.803456; -122.417144. San Francisco Art Institute ( SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately 220 undergraduates and 112 graduate students ...
Jewish universities and colleges in the U.S. include: American Jewish University, formerly University of Judaism and Brandeis-Bardin Institute (merged), Los Angeles, California. Baltimore Hebrew University, now Baltimore Hebrew Institute, Towson University, Maryland; Gratz College, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania; Florida Hebrew University, Aventura ...
Michael Lerner (rabbi) Michael Lerner (born February 11, 1943) is an American political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, California, and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley. [1] [2]