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Since 2003, the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces association has sponsored a summer camp program, Moreshet, for Israeli children who have lost a parent or sibling in a war or terrorist attack. The children spend the summer at Jewish sleep-away camps in the United States. In 2007, Camp Ramah in the Berkshires hosted 50 campers and staff members.
The JCC Association is the continental umbrella organization for the Jewish Community Center movement, which includes more than 350 JCCs, YM–YWHAs, and camp sites in the U.S. and Canada, in addition to 180 local JCCs in the former Soviet Union, 70 in Latin America, 50 in Europe, and close to 500 smaller centers in Israel.
Camp Kimama was founded in Israel in 2004 by Ronen Hoffman with the intention of bringing American-style Jewish summer camps to Israel. [1] At the time, most Israeli summer camps ran for two or three days and were run by youth movements such as Noam on land belonging to JNF /KKL. [2] The camp became the first international summer camp in Israel ...
A Jewish summer camp is a summer camp dedicated to Jewish communities. In the United States these camps grew in popularity in the years after World War II and the Holocaust as an effort by American Jewish leaders to preserve and produce authentic Jewish culture. [1] Outside the United States, similar camps are generally organized by various ...
B'nai B'rith has also been involved in Jewish camping for more than a half century. In 1953, B'nai B'rith acquired a 300-acre (120 ha) camp in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. Originally named Camp B'nai B'rith, the facility would later be named B'nai B'rith Perlman Camp in honor of the early BBYO leader Anita Perlman and her husband, Louis.
Israel Railway Museum: Haifa: Transportation – railways Israeli Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum: Haifa: Israel Defense Forces – Sea Corps: Israeli National Maritime Museum: Haifa: Maritime history Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space: Haifa: Science and technology, hands-on exhibits 400,000 [11] Moshe Shteklis ...
Early history. German Jews arrived in Dallas as part of the mid-nineteenth century immigration to Texas from the German principalities following their revolutions. They established the city's first Jewish cemetery in 1854. [ 2] The small but growing Jewish community wanted a permanent religious structure as well as a rabbi to conduct services ...
The history of the Jews in Pittsburgh dates back to the mid-19th century. In 2002, Jewish households represented 3.8% of households in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. [ 1] As of 2017, there were an estimated 50,000 Jews in the Greater Pittsburgh area. [ 2] In 2012, Pittsburgh's Jewish community celebrated its 100th year of federated giving ...