JEWISH DAILY FORWARD — (Yid. Forverts), U.S. Yiddish newspaper. Established in New York in 1897 as a more moderate offshoot of the militantly left wing Abendblatt the Forward was in its heyday the wealthiest and most widely read Yiddish newspaper in the United States,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
JEWISH SOCIALIST VERBAND — JEWISH SOCIALIST VERBAND, U.S. organization devoted to the promotion of democratic socialism and the strengthening of Jewish group life on the basis of modern Yiddish culture. The Jewish Socialist Verband (JSV) was founded in 1921 by a minority… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Jewish National Fund — The Jewish National Fund (Hebrew: קרן קימת לישראל, Keren Kayemet LeYisrael ) (abbreviated as JNF, and sometimes KKL) was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Palestine (later Israel) for Jewish settlement. The JNF is a non profit… … Wikipedia
Forward (Zeitung) — Abraham Cahan, Gründer und bis 1945 Herausgeber des Forward … Deutsch Wikipedia
Jewish Defense Organization — The Jewish Defense Organization is a militant Jewish organization in the United States. It is right wing in its stance on Israeli defense and foreign policy issues. Its positions on issues of Jewish concern in the United States are more nuanced,… … Wikipedia
Jewish tartan — The Jewish tartan was designed by Chabad rabbi Mendel Jacobs of Glasgow, Scotland in 2008. The tartan s colors are blue, white, silver, red and gold. The tartan was certified by the Scottish Tartans Authority, which had previously approved… … Wikipedia
The Forward — ( yi. פֿאָרווערטס; Forverts ) is a Jewish American weekly newspaper published in New York City. As of 2008, the Forward is published as a weekly news magazine in separate Yiddish and English editions. Each is effectively an independent… … Wikipedia
World Jewish Congress — The World Jewish Congress (WJC), is an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. Its headquarters are in New York City, USA; its research institute is located in Jerusalem. It maintains international offices in Paris,… … Wikipedia
FAMILY, AMERICAN JEWISH — Introduction Any discussion of American Jewish family life as an institution must view it within the context of contemporary American social, economic, and political life. All contemporary American Jews are Jews by choice in that their… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership — The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) is a leadership training institute, think tank, and resource center. It is an inter disciplinary and inter denominational movement, in which rabbis from all of the major Jewish… … Wikipedia