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So how does it come. This cooperation was initiated by museum employees? 7 volunteers presented on Wikimania are who? Museum employees? -- Juandev ( talk) 15:36, 29 August 2011 (UTC) At present there is one museum employee (me). I was lucky enough to be in a conference 6 months ago and hear Liam Wyatt speak about GLAM and his experience as a Wikipedian in residence. I asked how to do a similar project in our museum and he put me in touch with the local Wikipedia chapter. We are now beginning in to make connections with other Wikipedian around the world. Thank you for interest in the project Drkup(IMJ) ( talk) 21:12, 31 August 2011 (UTC) There has been two different alert pages set up.
When you create a new page or edit an existing page that was not already a part of IMJ, make sure you add the WikiBanner onto the articles talk page... Just add this bit of code {{ WikiProject Israel Museum, Jerusalem}}. This will make sure the article gets added to the statistics table. The article will also be added to the two alert pages. Bgwhite ( talk) 21:35, 27 September 2011 (UTC) Thank you to Isaac Kosgei for completing the translation of the Wikipedia article on Larry Abramson into Swahili. This is the 7th language for this article – in addition to German, Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian and English! There is a language link from here and a direct link here Isaac and I met at the Wikimania conference in August. We hope to continue working together in the future. Drkup(IMJ) ( talk) 07:44, 1 November 2011 (UTC) Following a listing at the copyright problems board, I have discovered a large number of articles with text copied from the Israeli Museum of Jerusalem as well as other sites. This is a problem under our copyright policies, although I assume it is one that can be easily remedied. As long as the museum continues to display the following copyright status, we cannot use their content without verified permission: "Website, text, and photos © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2011. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be downloaded, copied, or reproduced in any form, analog or digital, without the permission of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, with the exception of single printouts for research or private study. Copyright in many of the works of art displayed on this site is held by the individual artists or their representatives. Reproducing these works of art in any manner requires obtaining the copyright owner's permission." They can most easily remedy this by altering their copyright statement to license their text under
creative commons attribution share-alike. Alternatively, they will need to contact the volunteers who handle copyright permission at We will need releases for any website from which content is copied, except in brief and clearly marked quotations used in compliance with non-free content policies. Absent such a release, all content from copyrighted sources aside from brief and clearly marked quotations must be written from scratch. With the release, there may be specific attribution requirements, and even public domain material must be properly marked when copied to meet the standards adopted by the community at Wikipedia:Plagiarism. Thanks. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:53, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Things to know (began May 2018)
Tests"Moshe Gershuni". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved September 1, 2011. Gideon Gechtman collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved September 2011. Recommendations for the chapters 1 and 2
Caption: Title הקונגרס הציוני הראשון -קונגרס הציוני השני Additional Titles [Theodor Herzl Addressing The First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897] [picture] כותר מתוקן: הקונגרס הציוני השני קונגרס הציוני השני Creation Date 1898 Genre Print Notes File Record תצלום הנוכחים באולם שבו נערכה פתיחת הקונגרס בעיר בזל. בגב התצלום נוספה הערה בכתב ידו של ד"ר יוסף חזנוביץ', המזהה תצלום זה עם הקונגרס הציוני הראשון, אך ככל הנראה זוהי טעות והתצלום נעשה בפתיחת הקונגרס הציוני השני בשנת 1898. Language note/הערת שפה: עברית Format 1 photograph : b&w 245 X 304 mm.. Host Item אוסף התצלומים Language No linguistic content Call Number TM 2* 1948 אוסף התצלומים System Number 990034836970205171 National Library of Israel
The Rise of Zionism
Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman (Ramban) could barely find ten Jews for a minyan, a quorum for prayer, in Jerusalem, but even then there were still small pockets of Jewish inhabitants. The Jewish population in the Land of Israel increased in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, numbering between 5,000 and 10,000 souls, roughly 3%-5% of the total population. They lived mainly in the Galilee and in the cities of Teveriah (Tiberias) and Tzefas (Safed) – both being little more than large villages at that time. Chevron (Hebron) Ottoman Empire Early Settlement As noted in the chapter on Lithuania, at the beginning of the nineteenth century a small group of Lithuanian Jews, For a brief, but significant period (1831-1840), the Land of Israel and most of the Ottoman Empire fell under the rule of the Egyptian military leader Muhammad Ali, and his son, Ibrahim Pasha. Ibrahim Pasha pushed Egyptian domination to Damascus, driving the Ottomans northward. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1834 (and the Druze Revolt in 1838) Pe’as HaShulchan, Rabbi Israel of Shklov, describes in detail the horrors and tragedy that befell the Jews of Tzefas. His entire family was wiped out by the earthquake Rabbi Shmuel Salant, arrived in Jerusalem Chacham Bashi, a title granted to chief rabbis of communities throughout the Moslem world by the Ottoman Turks. Chacham Bashi, a title granted to chief rabbis of communities throughout the Moslem world by the Ottoman Turks. Kupas Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, which had originated in Tiberias in 1796. Risking Settlement Beyond the City Walls We must remember that to venture beyond the Old City walls at that time, was a dangerous undertaking. Marauders would attack, particularly at night, and murder Sir Moses Montefiore in 1860 Seven pioneers founded a new cooperative neighborhood outside the Old City walls in 1869, and that neighborhood is still called Nachalat Shivah, “the Settlement of the Seven.” F
Machaneh Yisrael was a communal neighborhood built by and for Maghrebi Jews (Jews who had come from North Africa). f Petach Tikvah. e Chovevei Tzion (Lovers of Zion) and Baron Edmond de Rothschild c rabbi of Ponevezh as a young man and was known in the Jewish world as the Aderet,
Rabbi Rabinowitz-Teomim before the rabbinic court of Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spector, the Rabbi of Kovno, to force the Aderet to end his strike. Rabbi Spector decided in favor of the rabbi, ruling that the strike was justified and that the community should immediately pay the back wages. Rabbi Rabinowitz-Teomim pashkavilim and they created an art form all their own. Many were bitter and divisive, while others were clever, sarcastic, sardonic, and even humorous. The Hebrew University’s Safra Campus in Givat Ram, Jerusalem, houses a collection of pashkavilim that dotted the walls of Jerusalem over the past nearly two centuries. You will not find even one of them that makes any derogatory statement or comment about Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Rabbi Yechiel Michel Gesher HaChaim, a comprehensive study of end-of-life issues Rabbi Chaim Berlin, the oldest son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin settled in Jerusalem s Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818-1898), After the passing of Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld became Rabbi of the community. Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger. Formerly the Rabbi of Pressburg, he had been a student of the Ksav Sofer and the Maharam Schic Hamizrachi (which will be discussed shortly) founded several religious kibbutzim, among them: Tirat Zvi, Sedeh Eliyahu and Ein HaNatziv in the Beit Shean valley; Gush Etzion; Be’erot Yitzchak, Sa’ad, Kfar Darom, and Yavneh. In 1881 an eccentric Lithuanian Jew by the name of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Perlmanc Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rav Kook met and befriended David Cohen, a young Jewish intellectual. Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of Aruch HaShulchan. Rabbi Fishman was a prolific author, and he was the founder of a well-known scholarly Torah journal, Sinai. He was a fervent Zionist and a very adept polemicist. Another head of the Mizrachi movement was Rabbi Meir Berlin (who adopted the name Bar Ilan), the youngest son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin of Volozhin. Both Mizrachi and Hapoel HaMizrachi were successful in developing strong youth organizations such as Bnei Akiva and HaShomer HaDati. They created hachsharot – preparatory training camps outside the Land of Israel to indoctrinate young people for their potential arrival in the Land of Israel The first was that he was invited to speak at the dedication of Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus in 1925. The main guest of honor at that occasion was Lord Balfour – the same Lord Balfour whose name adorned the famed Balfour Declaration that the Zionists claimed vindicated their efforts to build a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel. At the conclusion of his brief remarks, Rabbi Kook quoted the verse from Isaiah that from Zion will come forth Torah, and the word of God from Jerusalem. Chaim Arlozorov, when he was walking with his wife on the boardwalk in Tel Aviv one Friday night. The ongoing ideological dispute between the followers of Zev Jabotinsky of the Revisionist Zionist party and the predominant Socialist Labor group in Palestine, led by Yitzchak Ben Zvi and David Ben Gurion, had become bitterly personal. When Arlozorov was killed, the Labor movement immediately claimed that it was the work of the Revisionists. A leading Revisionist activist, Avraham Stavsky, Rabbi Abraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1878-1953) was the author of famed halachic works titled Chazon Ish. Originally these works were published anonymously, beginning in 1911 and continuing for decades. But the secret could not be kept hidden for long. He came to be recognized as one of the greatest scholars and wisest guides of his era. Rabbi Karelitz lived in relative seclusion and devoted himself to his studies in Vilna, where he was a deeply respected confidant of the great Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky.
In 1938, a group fiercely opposed to any cooperation with Zionism or secular Jews formed an organization called Neturei Karta Rabbi Moshe Meir Avigdor Amiel, the Rabbi of Antwerp, Belgium, an orator of note, a scholar, and a strong leader of the Mizrachi movement; Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik who was then establishing himself in the United States as a rabbi in Boston; and Rabbi Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog, who was then the Chief Rabbi of Ireland. Rabbi Soloveitchik’s father, Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik (son of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, the famed scholar of the yeshivah in Volozhin) interceded with a strong and poignant letter to the election committee in Tel Aviv extolling the virtues of his son and his fitness for the position. Naturally, Mizrachi followers favored the candidacy of Rabbi Amiel, In the 1930s, HaPaoel HaMizrachi founded three kibbutzim located near one another in the Jordan Valley. Tirat Zvi, Sdei Eliyahu and Ein HaNetziv formed the nucleus of the Kibbutz Hadati organization and movement. Rabbi Herzog (1888-1959) was chosen. He was a great Torah scholar, a genius with a photographic memory. He had an enormous passion for the welfare of the Jewish people as a whole, as well as for individual Jews. He had obtained his doctorate from the University of London with his treatise on the techeles of tzitzis: w THE BRITISH EMPIRE Queen Victoria (1837-1901) Jewish community in Great Britain Nathan Meyer Rothschild (1777- 1836) Sir Moses Montefiore, knighted by Queen Victoria The Chief Rabbi from 1802-1842 was Rabbi Solomon Hirschell (1762-1842) Rabbi Zvi Ashkenazi, known as the Chacham Zvi, Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler. United Synagogue siddur , Rabbi Abraham Abba Werner (1837-1912), in effect recognizing him, and not Rabbi Nathan H. Adler, as their “Chief Rabbi.” The Disraeli Phenomenon Ironically one of the forces that helped preserve the Jewish community was the rise of an apostate, Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Bevis Marks Synagogue Rabbi Hertz was the leader of the Jewish community during the awful time of World War I. Balfour Declaration of 1917 Ze’ev Jabotinsky Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, was founded. Its Av Beis Din (head of the rabbinical court) was Rabbi Avigdor Schonfeld. There were Jewish communities all over England, Scotland, and Wales. In Ireland, there were Jewish communities in Belfast and Dublin. Sassoon and Kadoorie families that helped transform this Chinese city into an international business center and metropolis. In 1902, the Sassoon brothers, aided by funding from the Kadoorie family, built the famous Ohel Leah Synagogue, which initially was under the supervision of the Chacham of the Spanish/Portuguese Congregation of London. The Hong Kong community flourished and survived THE AMERICAS Italian-born Rabbi Sabbato Morais (1823-1897) was the rabbi of the famed Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jacob Schiff entered the picture. Born in Germany, he came to America in 1865
“Talmud Torah” institutions that operated after public school hours had ended. Even though these schools often did provide for some Jewish education, most of the time they could not succeed in producing knowledgeable, committed, observant Jews. After a full day in public school, children wanted to play, go to the library, or do their homework. They were less than enthusiastic about having to sit for another two or three hours in a Talmud Torah school to learn what they considered irrelevant to their lives as Americans |
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| Main page | Members | Templates | Photographic contribution | Wiki Loves Public Art | Events | Artist Files | Discussion |
List of things to do (please remove from list if done)
Permission received to use images from the following artists on wikipedia (the world thanks them)
So how does it come. This cooperation was initiated by museum employees? 7 volunteers presented on Wikimania are who? Museum employees? -- Juandev ( talk) 15:36, 29 August 2011 (UTC) At present there is one museum employee (me). I was lucky enough to be in a conference 6 months ago and hear Liam Wyatt speak about GLAM and his experience as a Wikipedian in residence. I asked how to do a similar project in our museum and he put me in touch with the local Wikipedia chapter. We are now beginning in to make connections with other Wikipedian around the world. Thank you for interest in the project Drkup(IMJ) ( talk) 21:12, 31 August 2011 (UTC) There has been two different alert pages set up.
When you create a new page or edit an existing page that was not already a part of IMJ, make sure you add the WikiBanner onto the articles talk page... Just add this bit of code {{ WikiProject Israel Museum, Jerusalem}}. This will make sure the article gets added to the statistics table. The article will also be added to the two alert pages. Bgwhite ( talk) 21:35, 27 September 2011 (UTC) Thank you to Isaac Kosgei for completing the translation of the Wikipedia article on Larry Abramson into Swahili. This is the 7th language for this article – in addition to German, Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Russian and English! There is a language link from here and a direct link here Isaac and I met at the Wikimania conference in August. We hope to continue working together in the future. Drkup(IMJ) ( talk) 07:44, 1 November 2011 (UTC) Following a listing at the copyright problems board, I have discovered a large number of articles with text copied from the Israeli Museum of Jerusalem as well as other sites. This is a problem under our copyright policies, although I assume it is one that can be easily remedied. As long as the museum continues to display the following copyright status, we cannot use their content without verified permission: "Website, text, and photos © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2011. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be downloaded, copied, or reproduced in any form, analog or digital, without the permission of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, with the exception of single printouts for research or private study. Copyright in many of the works of art displayed on this site is held by the individual artists or their representatives. Reproducing these works of art in any manner requires obtaining the copyright owner's permission." They can most easily remedy this by altering their copyright statement to license their text under
creative commons attribution share-alike. Alternatively, they will need to contact the volunteers who handle copyright permission at We will need releases for any website from which content is copied, except in brief and clearly marked quotations used in compliance with non-free content policies. Absent such a release, all content from copyrighted sources aside from brief and clearly marked quotations must be written from scratch. With the release, there may be specific attribution requirements, and even public domain material must be properly marked when copied to meet the standards adopted by the community at Wikipedia:Plagiarism. Thanks. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 13:53, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Things to know (began May 2018)
Tests"Moshe Gershuni". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved September 1, 2011. Gideon Gechtman collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved September 2011. Recommendations for the chapters 1 and 2
Caption: Title הקונגרס הציוני הראשון -קונגרס הציוני השני Additional Titles [Theodor Herzl Addressing The First Zionist Congress in Basel, 1897] [picture] כותר מתוקן: הקונגרס הציוני השני קונגרס הציוני השני Creation Date 1898 Genre Print Notes File Record תצלום הנוכחים באולם שבו נערכה פתיחת הקונגרס בעיר בזל. בגב התצלום נוספה הערה בכתב ידו של ד"ר יוסף חזנוביץ', המזהה תצלום זה עם הקונגרס הציוני הראשון, אך ככל הנראה זוהי טעות והתצלום נעשה בפתיחת הקונגרס הציוני השני בשנת 1898. Language note/הערת שפה: עברית Format 1 photograph : b&w 245 X 304 mm.. Host Item אוסף התצלומים Language No linguistic content Call Number TM 2* 1948 אוסף התצלומים System Number 990034836970205171 National Library of Israel
The Rise of Zionism
Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman (Ramban) could barely find ten Jews for a minyan, a quorum for prayer, in Jerusalem, but even then there were still small pockets of Jewish inhabitants. The Jewish population in the Land of Israel increased in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, numbering between 5,000 and 10,000 souls, roughly 3%-5% of the total population. They lived mainly in the Galilee and in the cities of Teveriah (Tiberias) and Tzefas (Safed) – both being little more than large villages at that time. Chevron (Hebron) Ottoman Empire Early Settlement As noted in the chapter on Lithuania, at the beginning of the nineteenth century a small group of Lithuanian Jews, For a brief, but significant period (1831-1840), the Land of Israel and most of the Ottoman Empire fell under the rule of the Egyptian military leader Muhammad Ali, and his son, Ibrahim Pasha. Ibrahim Pasha pushed Egyptian domination to Damascus, driving the Ottomans northward. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1834 (and the Druze Revolt in 1838) Pe’as HaShulchan, Rabbi Israel of Shklov, describes in detail the horrors and tragedy that befell the Jews of Tzefas. His entire family was wiped out by the earthquake Rabbi Shmuel Salant, arrived in Jerusalem Chacham Bashi, a title granted to chief rabbis of communities throughout the Moslem world by the Ottoman Turks. Chacham Bashi, a title granted to chief rabbis of communities throughout the Moslem world by the Ottoman Turks. Kupas Rabbi Meir Baal Haness, which had originated in Tiberias in 1796. Risking Settlement Beyond the City Walls We must remember that to venture beyond the Old City walls at that time, was a dangerous undertaking. Marauders would attack, particularly at night, and murder Sir Moses Montefiore in 1860 Seven pioneers founded a new cooperative neighborhood outside the Old City walls in 1869, and that neighborhood is still called Nachalat Shivah, “the Settlement of the Seven.” F
Machaneh Yisrael was a communal neighborhood built by and for Maghrebi Jews (Jews who had come from North Africa). f Petach Tikvah. e Chovevei Tzion (Lovers of Zion) and Baron Edmond de Rothschild c rabbi of Ponevezh as a young man and was known in the Jewish world as the Aderet,
Rabbi Rabinowitz-Teomim before the rabbinic court of Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spector, the Rabbi of Kovno, to force the Aderet to end his strike. Rabbi Spector decided in favor of the rabbi, ruling that the strike was justified and that the community should immediately pay the back wages. Rabbi Rabinowitz-Teomim pashkavilim and they created an art form all their own. Many were bitter and divisive, while others were clever, sarcastic, sardonic, and even humorous. The Hebrew University’s Safra Campus in Givat Ram, Jerusalem, houses a collection of pashkavilim that dotted the walls of Jerusalem over the past nearly two centuries. You will not find even one of them that makes any derogatory statement or comment about Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Rabbi Yechiel Michel Gesher HaChaim, a comprehensive study of end-of-life issues Rabbi Chaim Berlin, the oldest son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin settled in Jerusalem s Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818-1898), After the passing of Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld became Rabbi of the community. Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger. Formerly the Rabbi of Pressburg, he had been a student of the Ksav Sofer and the Maharam Schic Hamizrachi (which will be discussed shortly) founded several religious kibbutzim, among them: Tirat Zvi, Sedeh Eliyahu and Ein HaNatziv in the Beit Shean valley; Gush Etzion; Be’erot Yitzchak, Sa’ad, Kfar Darom, and Yavneh. In 1881 an eccentric Lithuanian Jew by the name of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Perlmanc Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, Rav Kook met and befriended David Cohen, a young Jewish intellectual. Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, the author of Aruch HaShulchan. Rabbi Fishman was a prolific author, and he was the founder of a well-known scholarly Torah journal, Sinai. He was a fervent Zionist and a very adept polemicist. Another head of the Mizrachi movement was Rabbi Meir Berlin (who adopted the name Bar Ilan), the youngest son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin of Volozhin. Both Mizrachi and Hapoel HaMizrachi were successful in developing strong youth organizations such as Bnei Akiva and HaShomer HaDati. They created hachsharot – preparatory training camps outside the Land of Israel to indoctrinate young people for their potential arrival in the Land of Israel The first was that he was invited to speak at the dedication of Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus in 1925. The main guest of honor at that occasion was Lord Balfour – the same Lord Balfour whose name adorned the famed Balfour Declaration that the Zionists claimed vindicated their efforts to build a Jewish homeland in the Land of Israel. At the conclusion of his brief remarks, Rabbi Kook quoted the verse from Isaiah that from Zion will come forth Torah, and the word of God from Jerusalem. Chaim Arlozorov, when he was walking with his wife on the boardwalk in Tel Aviv one Friday night. The ongoing ideological dispute between the followers of Zev Jabotinsky of the Revisionist Zionist party and the predominant Socialist Labor group in Palestine, led by Yitzchak Ben Zvi and David Ben Gurion, had become bitterly personal. When Arlozorov was killed, the Labor movement immediately claimed that it was the work of the Revisionists. A leading Revisionist activist, Avraham Stavsky, Rabbi Abraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1878-1953) was the author of famed halachic works titled Chazon Ish. Originally these works were published anonymously, beginning in 1911 and continuing for decades. But the secret could not be kept hidden for long. He came to be recognized as one of the greatest scholars and wisest guides of his era. Rabbi Karelitz lived in relative seclusion and devoted himself to his studies in Vilna, where he was a deeply respected confidant of the great Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky.
In 1938, a group fiercely opposed to any cooperation with Zionism or secular Jews formed an organization called Neturei Karta Rabbi Moshe Meir Avigdor Amiel, the Rabbi of Antwerp, Belgium, an orator of note, a scholar, and a strong leader of the Mizrachi movement; Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik who was then establishing himself in the United States as a rabbi in Boston; and Rabbi Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog, who was then the Chief Rabbi of Ireland. Rabbi Soloveitchik’s father, Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik (son of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, the famed scholar of the yeshivah in Volozhin) interceded with a strong and poignant letter to the election committee in Tel Aviv extolling the virtues of his son and his fitness for the position. Naturally, Mizrachi followers favored the candidacy of Rabbi Amiel, In the 1930s, HaPaoel HaMizrachi founded three kibbutzim located near one another in the Jordan Valley. Tirat Zvi, Sdei Eliyahu and Ein HaNetziv formed the nucleus of the Kibbutz Hadati organization and movement. Rabbi Herzog (1888-1959) was chosen. He was a great Torah scholar, a genius with a photographic memory. He had an enormous passion for the welfare of the Jewish people as a whole, as well as for individual Jews. He had obtained his doctorate from the University of London with his treatise on the techeles of tzitzis: w THE BRITISH EMPIRE Queen Victoria (1837-1901) Jewish community in Great Britain Nathan Meyer Rothschild (1777- 1836) Sir Moses Montefiore, knighted by Queen Victoria The Chief Rabbi from 1802-1842 was Rabbi Solomon Hirschell (1762-1842) Rabbi Zvi Ashkenazi, known as the Chacham Zvi, Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler. United Synagogue siddur , Rabbi Abraham Abba Werner (1837-1912), in effect recognizing him, and not Rabbi Nathan H. Adler, as their “Chief Rabbi.” The Disraeli Phenomenon Ironically one of the forces that helped preserve the Jewish community was the rise of an apostate, Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Bevis Marks Synagogue Rabbi Hertz was the leader of the Jewish community during the awful time of World War I. Balfour Declaration of 1917 Ze’ev Jabotinsky Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, was founded. Its Av Beis Din (head of the rabbinical court) was Rabbi Avigdor Schonfeld. There were Jewish communities all over England, Scotland, and Wales. In Ireland, there were Jewish communities in Belfast and Dublin. Sassoon and Kadoorie families that helped transform this Chinese city into an international business center and metropolis. In 1902, the Sassoon brothers, aided by funding from the Kadoorie family, built the famous Ohel Leah Synagogue, which initially was under the supervision of the Chacham of the Spanish/Portuguese Congregation of London. The Hong Kong community flourished and survived THE AMERICAS Italian-born Rabbi Sabbato Morais (1823-1897) was the rabbi of the famed Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jacob Schiff entered the picture. Born in Germany, he came to America in 1865
“Talmud Torah” institutions that operated after public school hours had ended. Even though these schools often did provide for some Jewish education, most of the time they could not succeed in producing knowledgeable, committed, observant Jews. After a full day in public school, children wanted to play, go to the library, or do their homework. They were less than enthusiastic about having to sit for another two or three hours in a Talmud Torah school to learn what they considered irrelevant to their lives as Americans |