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The World Headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement are located at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn and is often simply referred to as 770. [1] The synagogue, located under 784 and 788 Eastern Parkway, has been subject to a dispute between the Agudas Chasidei Chabad (the umbrella organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement) and the Gabbaim, who are associated ...
The conflict at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York City, which serves as the center of an influential Hasidic Jewish movement, began when a cement truck arrived to seal the tunnel ...
The house, in Collegiate Gothic Revival style, was built in 1920, designed by Edwin Kline, and originally served as a medical office. [2] In 1940, with the assistance of Jacob Rutstein and his son Nathan Rothstein, the building was purchased by Agudas Chasidei Chabad on behalf of the Chabad Lubavitch movement and as a home for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn when he arrived in the United ...
Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan is the largest Reform Jewish synagogue in the world. Jews have immigrated to New York City since the first settlement in Dutch New Amsterdam in 1654, most notably at the end of the 19th century to the early 20th century, when the Jewish population rose from about 80,000 in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920.
The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is a far-right [4] [5] political organization in the United States and Canada.Its stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary"; [6] it has been classified as "right-wing terrorist group" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) since 2001, [7] [needs update] and is also designated as hate group by the Southern Poverty Law ...
The Jewish Underground (Hebrew: המחתרת היהודית HaMakhteret HaYehudit), [1] or in abbreviated form, simply Makhteret, [2] was a radical right-wing fundamentalist organization [3] considered terrorist by Israel, [4] [5] formed by prominent members of the Israeli political movement Gush Emunim that existed from 1979 to 1984. [6]
Tunnel People (Dutch title: Tunnelmensen) is an anthropological-journalistic account describing an underground homeless community in New York City.It is written by war photographer and anthropologist Teun Voeten and was initially published in his native Dutch in 1996, and a revised English version was published by the Oakland-based independent publishing house PM Press in 2010.
The Society for the Advancement of Judaism, also known as SAJ, is a Reconstructionist synagogue and Jewish organization in New York City, on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Founded in 1922 by Mordecai M. Kaplan, the rabbi who founded of Reconstructionist Judaism, the synagogue is affiliated with the Reconstructionist movement.