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Shulamith School for Girls is a Centrist Orthodox Jewish school. It was the first Orthodox Jewish elementary school for girls in North America. [2] The name Shulamith (Hebrew: שולמית) is a feminine form of the Hebrew name Solomon, which loosely translates to "peace". As of July 2010, the organization was divided into two separate ...
Temple Shaaray Tefila (Hebrew: שערי תפילה, lit. 'Gates of Prayer' [1]) is a Reform Jewish synagogue located at 250 East 79th Street (at the corner of 2nd Avenue) on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. [2] The synagogue was founded in 1845, and was officially chartered in 1848.
The Old Broadway Synagogue is a "vernacular" style synagogue built in 1923 by the architectural firm of Meisner and Uffner. The congregation formed from the mostly Ashkenazic Jewish population of Russian and Polish immigrants to New York during the 1880s who had made their way up to Central Harlem, then migrated to blocks west. The members ...
The school is located in the Riverdale section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Its name derives from the three schools which merged to form it, Salanter (named after Rabbi Yisrael Salanter), Akiba, and the Riverdale Academy, all Jewish day schools. The three schools merged in 1968 and adopted the current name.
Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor, namesake of the Seminary. The first Jewish schools in New York were El Hayyim and Rabbi Elnathan's, on the Lower East Side.In 1896, [2] several New York and Philadelphia rabbis agreed that a rabbinical seminary based on the traditional European yeshiva structure was needed to produce American rabbis [2] who were fully committed to what would come to be called ...
The girl's elementary school has about 300 students. [10] That same year, the school closed due to the swine flu epidemic. [11] In 2015, the school hosted a political rally promoting tax credits for parents of children in private schools. [12] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke at the event, as did City Council Member David G. Greenfield. [13]
Sinai Academy is a dual-curriculum school: first three classes of each day are in Hebrew / Judaic studies followed by five classes of general studies. Sinai Academy offers a number of AP Classes such as Calculus AB , Economics (Macro and Micro), European History, Psychology, Language and Composition. [ 3 ]
It is the second-oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City and the fifth-oldest synagogue building in the United States. [1] Rodeph Sholom moved to Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street, to a new Victorian Romanesque building designed by D. & J. Jardine and built in 1872–73 for Ansche Chesed. Simeon Abrahams conveyed land to the ...