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A ministerial decree by Andor Jaross on 22 April 1944 re-organized the Central Jewish Council as the nine-member Association of Hungarian Jews Provisional Executive Committee (Magyarországi Zsidók Szövetségének Ideiglenes Intéző Bizottsága) in effect on 8 May 1944 (but this council itself de facto came to exist by 1 May). The council ...
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is an international advocacy organization whose key area of focus is to promote religious and civil rights for Jews and others. [5] [8]AJC has 25 regional offices in the United States, 13 overseas offices, and 35 international partnerships with Jewish communal institutions around the world.
These councils were to have 12 members for Jewish communities of 10,000 or fewer, and up to 24 members for larger Jewish communities. Jewish communities were to elect their own councils, and by the end of 1939 were to have selected an executive and assistant executive as well.
He helped create the Bureau of Philanthropic Research in 1915, becoming its honorary secretary, and helped found the Committee for the Care of the Jewish Tuberculosis. He was a lecturer in social sciences for Columbia University from 1916 to 1918 and was a faculty member of the Graduate School of Jewish Social Work from 1928 to 1940.
Members of the Jewish Council of Budapest (6 P) Pages in category "Jewish councils in Hungary" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Pages in category "American people of Hungarian-Jewish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 472 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) is an American Jewish nonprofit organization that advocates for progressive and liberal policies. Founded in 1944 as the umbrella organization for local Jewish advocacy arms known as community relations councils, for almost 80 years it represented approximately 125 local Jewish federations and community relations councils and was the coordinating ...
A merger took place in 1935 between the Rabbinical Council of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and another Orthodox rabbinical group, the Rabbinical Association of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a part of Yeshiva University. With this merger the combined group took the name Rabbinical Council of America (RCA).