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The dome of Park Synagogue's former Cleveland Heights building, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, since vacated.. The following summer, in 1943, a day care and nursery school began functioning there, and an adjacent lot of 21 acres (8.5 ha) was purchased from John D. Rockefeller - thus forming a magnificent property with a creek and ravine running through it.
There are 8 ONR Chapters in Greater Cleveland. Camp Wise is a Jewish summer camp located east of Cleveland in Chardon. Since 1907, Camp Wise has been the summer home to hundreds of Jewish kids and teens from grades 2-10 every year. Though the camp serves mostly campers from Cleveland, campers as well as counselors from around the world attend.
The Oheb Zedek Cedar Sinai Synagogue is a Modern Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 23749 Cedar Road, in Lyndhurst, an eastern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. The congregation was formed in 2012, through a merger of two congregations dating from 1887. [1] [2] [3]
Jewish summer camps began near the end of the 19th century, when the Jewish population in the United States increased via immigration. It was a way for Jewish children of Eastern European immigrants to assimilate and "Americanize" at a time when summer camps excluded Jews from their ranks, as well as a way to allow children living in the city to experience the countryside.
The Jewish Orphan Asylum Sketch published in The American Israelite, Fri Jul 6 1888, Page 1. The Bellefaire Orphanage [1] was a Jewish orphanage in Cleveland Ohio [2] founded in 1868 as an orphanage for children who lost their parents in the Civil War, making it one of the oldest orphanages in the US.
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The history of Jews in Ohio dates back to 1817, when Joseph Jonas, a pioneer, came from England and made his home in Cincinnati.He drew after him a number of English Jews, who held Orthodox-style divine service for the first time in Ohio in 1819, and, as the community grew, organized themselves in 1824 into the first Jewish congregation of the Ohio Valley, the B'ne Israel.
In March 2010, Case Western Reserve University and The Temple Tifereth-Israel announced a historic partnership to create the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center, which was led by a donation of $12 million from the Maltz Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. The university estimated that the total ...