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17 hours ago · Jews played a prominent role, and were among the pioneers of Oakland in the 1850s. In the early years, the Oakland Hebrew Benevolent Society, founded in 1862, was the religious, social, and charitable center of the community. The first synagogue, the First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland, was founded in 1875.
2 days ago · Italians, Sicilian Americans, Greeks, Normans, Other people of the Mediterranean sea. The Sicilians ( Sicilian: Siciliani ), or Sicilian people, are a Romance -speaking ethnic group who are indigenous to the island of Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the largest and most populous of the autonomous regions of Italy .
4 days ago · US Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt rejects comparisons some are making between the current situation for Diaspora Jewry and the plight of European Jews in 1938.
4 days ago · Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism by Adam S. Ferziger. Call Number: BM197.6 .F47 2015. ISBN: 9780814339534. Publication Date: 2015-07-30. "In 1965 social scientist Charles S. Liebman published a study that boldly declared the vitality of American Jewish Orthodoxy and went on to guide scholarly investigations of ...
5 days ago · All Canadian holdings are listed in Occasional paper (Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives) ; no. 6. Bibliographies. Sectional maps of Western Canada, 1871-1955 - GA473.7 .D84 1989. See also other works in the series by ACMLA. Map index to topographic quadrangles of the United States, 1882-1940, GA405 .M63 1986
1 day ago · Internet TLD. .us [16] The United States of America ( USA or U.S.A. ), commonly known as the United States ( US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federation of 50 states, a federal capital district ( Washington, D.C. ), and 326 Indian reservations.
1 day ago · Join My Jewish Learning and Tehran-born guide Tabby Refael, for a guided tour of the long history of Jewish Iran. Dating back 2,700 years, we will explore the origins of one of the oldest minorities in Persian history, and gain an understanding of why the numbers dwindled so dramatically after the Iranian Revolution.
