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A Jewish Community Center or a Jewish Community Centre (JCC) is a general recreational, social, and fraternal organization serving the Jewish community in a number of cities. JCCs promote Jewish culture and heritage through holiday celebrations, Israel-related programming, and other Jewish education.
Beth Israel is the oldest Orthodox congregation in the New Orleans region [3] and its most prominent. [14] Though it was founded as early as 1903, [1] it traces its roots back to much older synagogues. In the mid-19th century New Orleans had a number of small Orthodox congregations of Eastern European Jews, generally "structured along ...
Temple Sinai is a historic Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 6227 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. [1] It is one of Louisiana's largest Jewish congregations, with a congregation of approximately 450 member families, and its oldest Reform congregation. [2]
Anshe Sfard is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 2230 Carondelet Street in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. [ 1 ] The synagogue building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 2, 2017.
The museum served as a clearinghouse and information center supporting the preservation of Jewish culture in the South, particularly in smaller towns, which were rapidly diminishing in size, as younger generations moved to larger urban areas. The Utica site closed in 2012. [7] In 2017 New Orleans was chosen as the home for the museum.
The sanctuary building on St. Charles Avenue in Uptown New Orleans was designed by Emile Weil, aged 29 years, and George Glover in the Byzantine Revival style, with a 71-foot-wide (22 m) dome. The synagogue was constructed in 1908 and dedicated 1 January 1909.
The Jewish Community of New Orleans. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1835-2. Rader Marcus, Jacob (1989). United States Jewry, 1776-1985. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2186-0. Rader Marcus, Jacob (2004). The Dynamics of American Jewish History: Jacob Rader Marcus's Essays on American Jewry'. UPNE. ISBN 1-58465-343-4. Wiernick, Peter ...
Congregation Gemiluth Chassodim known locally as "The Jewish Temple" is an historic Jewish synagogue located in Alexandria, Louisiana, in the United States.Founded in 1859 by Jews from the Alsace region of France, it is one of the oldest congregations in Louisiana and one of the original founding members of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, now known as the Union for Reform Judaism.