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The main swimming pool at the Jewish Community Center in Owings Mills, Maryland. A significant addition to the family of JCCs in North America is the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. [22] This eleven-story building situated in Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood opened its doors in the winter of 2002.
Tracy, a man with autism who stars in the documentary Wretches & Jabberers, participates in a Question and Answer session at the ReelAbilities Film Festival.. ReelAbilities is the United States' largest film festival dedicated to showcasing films by, or about, people with disabilities.
92nd Street Y, New York (92NY) is a cultural and community center located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the corner of East 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue.
The building is an example of the Jewish community center movement which was coming into its own at the time. [2] The synagogue is a two-story-and-mezzanine Modern Movement building with a limestone façade and granite base. It has a short tower and recessed shallow entrance porch, flanked on either side by a single unadorned column. [1]
Jewish organizations are locally based, though they do play a role in coordinating activities with national Jewish organizations. [2] JCCs focus on assisting local Jewish community and safeguarding Jewish rights. [1]
Avram Mlotek (Yiddish: אברהם מלאטעק, born 1987 in Manhattan, NY) is an American rabbi, social activist, cantor, writer, actor and slam poet.Mlotek is the co-founder of Base, a pluralistic home-centered outreach program, established in nine cities worldwide, predominantly for Jewish young adults.
Congregation Beth Israel, commonly referred to as the West Side Jewish Center or, in more recent years, the Hudson Yards Synagogue, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 347 West 34th Street, in the Garment District of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, [1] [3] in the United States.
The group was founded in 2001 as an online listserve, and began meeting in the Manhattan JCC in 2003. [3] Rachael Fried became executive director in June 2019. [4] The organization firmly believes in meeting each individual person where they are. JQY creates spaces for individuals who share the common identities of being LGBTQ and Jewish.