יום שישי י"ט באדר ב תשפ"ד 29/03/2024
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  • The Mission Continues

    As in the past so it remains today - we were and still are under the selfsame commitment to adhere to the directions of the Gedolei Yisrael, who stand guard against breaches of purity threatening our camp. When we were required to ask – we asked. When we were instructed to depart – we left. The moment we are summoned back to raise the flag, every other consideration is pushed to the side and we answer: We are ready!

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  • Harav Yisrael Friedman zy”a, the Rebbe of Husyatin

    מוטי, ויקיפדיה העברית

    The ancestral chain of Harav Yisrael Friedman, the founder of the Husyatin chassidic court, originates with the holy Baal Shem Tov. The Husyatin chassidus has its roots in Galicia and eventually came to Tel Aviv, during the turbulent years between the two World Wars.

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  • Maccabi'im Gravesite

    In honour of Chanukah, we will discuss a fascinating, ongoing investigation attempting to establish the place of burial of Mattisyahu Kohen Gadol and his family.

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New York – a Jewish state

With the influx of Jews, New York was destined to open its arms to the newcomers.

N. Lieberman 30/08/2009 10:00

It was in the year 5414 (1654ce) that the first Jew settled in America, 162 years after the discovery of the new continent by the Spaniard, Columbus. The first Jew settled in New York, which was at the time called New Amsterdam.

In the course of the 17th and 18th centuries, Jewish settlement was concentrated in New York, although Jewish communities were also established in Newport and Philadelphia.

From the beginning of the 19th century, a great wave of immigrants began to arrive from Poland, Germany and other central European countries, numbering some 300,000 Jews. Unlike the previous nuclear concentration of communities, now the Jews spread all over America, as far as San Francisco on the west coast.

Between the years 5641 and 5674 (1881 – 1914), two million Jews immigrated to the United States. This great influx of immigrants was dubbed ‘the great wave of immigration’.

As of today, the Jewish community in the United States is the second largest in the world, after that of Israel, and numbers some 5 ¼ million souls.

New York, location of the first Jewish settlement in America around 350 years ago, is the largest Jewish community in the United States, numbering some 1.9 million souls – 15% of the total population of New York itself.