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101LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES, city in S. California with approximately 4,000,000 inhabitants occupying 469 square miles of territory; the third most populous city in the U.S. and the largest city in area in the world. Los Angeles County is the home of some… …
102PHILADELPHIA — PHILADELPHIA, fifth largest city in the United States, in the State of pennsylvania . The area s Jewish population (2001), sixth largest in the nation, was estimated at 206,000. Origins of the Jewish Community Jews came from New Amsterdam to… …
103POZNANSKI, GUSTAVUS — (1804–1879), Jewish religious leader and reformer. Born in Storchnest, Poland, and educated in Hamburg, he immigrated to the United States in 1831 and served for a time as the shoḥet of Shearith Israel in New York, blowing the shofar and serving… …
104SCHACHTER, JACOB J. — SCHACHTER, JACOB J. (1950– ), U.S. Orthodox rabbi. Schachter was born into a prominent rabbinic family; his father was Rabbi herschel schachter who was among the first to enter Buchenwald after liberation and who served as rabbi of the Moshula… …
105SILVERMAN, JOSEPH — (1860–1930), U.S. rabbi. Born in Cincinnati, he attended the University of Cincinnati, where he earned his B.A. in 1883. A year later he was ordained as the class valedictorian and received his D.D. from Hebrew Union College in 1887. He was a… …
106SIMON, ABRAM — (1872–1938), U.S. Reform rabbi. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he was educated at the University of Cincinnati where he earned his B.A. in 1894, the same year he was ordained by Hebrew Union College. In 1917, long after he had become rabbi of… …
107SOUTH AFRICA — SOUTH AFRICA, republic comprising nine provinces – Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, North West, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State, and KwaZulu Natal. Prior to 1994, when multiracial democracy was introduced, there were four… …
108SYNAGOGUE — This article is arranged according to the following outline. origins and history until the first century first century c.e. middle ages modern period …
