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The first known Jew to settle in Cincinnati was Joseph Jonas, an English emigrant who arrived in the city via Philadelphia in 1817. [2] Jonas, a young man, decided to leave his home in Exeter, England, with the avowed intention of settling in Cincinnati. Friends in Philadelphia originally endeavored to dissuade him from going to a place so ...
History. Jews arrived in Chicago immediately after its 1833 incorporation. [2] The Ashkenazim were the first Jewish group settling in Chicago. In the late 1830s and early 1840s a group of mostly Bavarian German Jews came to Chicago. [5] On Yom Kippur 1845 the first Jewish religious service in Chicago was held. [6]
Under the initial guidance of the Archdiocese of Chicago, a struggling orphanage became a boys home under the name of the Mission of our Lady of Mercy. Mercy Home began accepting girls in 1987. Three years later, it was renamed Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Mercy Home is composed of two separate campuses where abused and neglected children are ...
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (also referred to as IFCJ or The Fellowship) is a philanthropic organization founded in 1983 by Yechiel Eckstein [ 1] whose stated mission is to promote understanding and cooperation between Jews and Christians, and provide humanitarian aid for the State of Israel. [ 2]
— April 17, 1947 Atomic Energy Commission memo from Colonel O.G. Haywood, Jr. to Dr. Fidler at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee Between 1946 and 1947, researchers at the University of Rochester injected uranium-234 and uranium-235 in dosages ranging from 6.4 to 70.7 micrograms per kilogram of body weight into six people to study how much uranium their kidneys could tolerate ...
The first Jewish federation was founded in Boston in 1895 as Associated Jewish Philanthropies. [2] [3] Cincinnati formed its federation, United Jewish Social Agencies, the next year. Chicago founded its federation in 1900 followed by St. Louis. [3] Federations were soon formed in many other cities with large Jewish populations.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information that leads to the arrest of people responsible for damaging gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries on Cincinnati's West Side. The ...
Brundibár. Poster for a performance of Brundibár, Theresienstadt, 1944. Brundibár is a children's opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, made most famous by performances by the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp (Terezín) in occupied Czechoslovakia. The name comes from a Czech ...