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IJA 155

Directory of Jewish Services Worldwide

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This is part of a directory of Jewish services throughout the world (United States, Europe, South America, and Africa). Included are Jewish organizations; educational institutes; councils; Jewish societies in New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC; Jewish institutes around the world: South America, Europe, and Africa; Head Rabbis around the world; Jewish population and immigrants from 1890-1979; Jewish day schools in the United Kingdom; Jewish activities in Jerusalem; Zionist Federations; Chambers of Commerce; Clubs and entertainment; Banks in Israel; Unions; Science and Culture organizations in Israel; National Center for Science and Technology; Scholarship Fund for Iraqi Jews in Israel; museums; political parties; press agencies; professional associations; media and newspapers; a foundation of Iraqi-Jewish immigrants in Israel; social services; sports associations; United Nations; youth centers; Diplomatic and Consular Corps of Israel; Zionist Yearbook, 1980; Israeli Consulates; Israeli government tourism offices; Eulogy by Rabbi Emmanuel Jacopovic to Sir Israel Brodi.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 155
Item Number
11050
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Typed, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Jewish Life
Height
30.10 cm
Width
22.10 cm

AI en Translation, Pages 1-25

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- Horak M. Kallen Center for Jewish Studies of Herzliah Hebrew (The
Horak M. Center for Jewish Students at the Herzliah Hebrew Institute) Teachers Institute
and Jewish Teachers Seminary and People's University: The Jewish Teachers Institute
and People's University. 69 Bank Street, New York, NY 10014
HIAS 200 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003
Phone: (212) 674 - 6800
- Histadrut Ivrit of America
120 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Phone: (212) 924 - 8650
- Jewish Book Council of the Jewish Welfare Board (The Jewish Book Council
of the Jewish Welfare Board)
15 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) LE 2 - 4646
- Jewish Braille Institute of America (The Jewish Braille Institute of America)
110 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Phone: 889 - 2525.
- Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Philadelphia (The Jewish
Relations Council of Philadelphia)
260 South 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102.
- Jewish Conciliation Board of America (The Jewish Conciliation Board of America)
120 West 57th Street, 5th Floor. New York, NY
10019
Phone: 582 - 3577.

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- National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education
(The National Association for Expanding Jewish Culture)
824 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn NY 11213
- National Conference of Synagogue Youth of Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America (The National Conference for Synagogue Youth of the Union of Jewish
Orthodox in America)
116 East 27th Street New York NY 10016
- National Council for Jewish Education (The National Council for Jewish Culture)
114 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10011
Telephone: 675-5656 (212) Publisher
"Jewish Education" (English) and Sheviley Hahinuch "Hebrew"
(English Jewish Culture, Hebrew Sheviley)
- National Council for Torah Education of Mizrachi - Hapoel Hamizrachi
(The National Council for Torah Culture for Mizrachi Hapoel Hamizrachi)
25 West 26th Street New York NY 10010
- National Council of Jewish Women (The National Council of Jewish Women)
15 East 26th Street New York NY 10010
- National Council of Young Israel (The National Council of Young Israel)
3 West 16th Street New York NY 10011
Telephone 929-1525
(Organization for over 160 Synagogues in the United States, Canada and America)
South seven employment agencies
26 Kosher Dining Clubs on College Campuses

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- Rabbinical Assembly at 3080 Broadway New York NY 10027
Telephone: 9 IR - 8000 (212)
- Rabbinical Council of America (Council of Rabbis in America)
1250 Broadway New York NY 10001
- Reconstructionist Federation of Congregations and Fellowships
(Federation of Reconstructionist Congregation and Relationships)
432 Park Avenue South New York NY 10016
Telephone: 889 - 9080
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical College 10 - 2304 (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College)
North Broadway Street Philadelphia PA 19132
Telephone: 215 - 2238121
- Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute Inc (Sholem Aleichem Folk Institute)
3301 Bainbridge Ave Bronx NY 10467
- Synagogue Council of America (Synagogue Council of America)
432 Park Avenue South New York NY 10016
- ⟦line⟧ Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools
(National Society for Hebrew Day Schools)
229 Park Ave South Street, New York NY 10003
- Union of American Hebrew Congregations (American Hebrew Congregation Unit)
838 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10021
Telephone: 249 - 0100 (212)

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- World Union for Progressive Judaism
North American Office, 838 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Telephone: (212) 249-0100
(Administration: 13 King David Street, Jerusalem - Israel
Telephone: 232444 / 234748)
- Yavneh: National Religious Jewish Students Association
(The National Association for Jewish Students)
25 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
Telephone: (212) 679-4574
- Yeshiva University
Main Center: 500 West 185th Street, New York, NY 10033
Telephone: (212) 960-5400
Midtown Center: 245 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (212) 481-0560
Brookdale Center: 55 Fifth Avenue, New York, Park Avenue, Bronx
NY 10461
Telephone: (212) 430-2000
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO Organization for Jewish Research)
1048 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028.

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Uruguay
⟦line⟧
- Comité Central Israelita del Uruguay
Río Negro 1308 Montevideo
- Comunidad Israelita del Uruguay
Durazno 1118 Montevideo
- Comunidad Israelita Sefardí del Uruguay
Buenos Aires 234 Montevideo
- Nueva Congregación Israelita de Montevideo
Río Branco 1168 Montevideo
- Organización Sionista del Uruguay
Ibaray 1278/4 Montevideo
Venezuela
⟦line⟧
- Asociación Israelita de Venezuela (The Israeli Institution in Venezuela)
Apartado 3861 Carmelitas Caracas 105
Telephone: 7821011
- Civil Charitable Association
Faynal Avenue, Los Cordes Building in front of the Venezuelan Children's Council, Caracas
Telephone: 340482

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- Israelite Union of Caracas
- Av. Marqués del Toro 9, San Bernardino, Caracas
- Telephone: 515235
Yugoslavia
⟦line⟧
- Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia
- 71/ I 111 P.O. Box 841
- Telephone: 359 - 624
Jewish Communities
⟦line⟧
- 11000 Belgrade - 7 July St. 11
- 41000 Zagreb - Palmotićeva 16
- 71000 Sarajevo - Dobrovoljačka 83
- 21000 Novi Sad - JNA 35
- 58000 Split - Židovski Prolaz 1
- 50000 Dubrovnik - Žudioska 3
- 24000 Subotica - Dimitrije Tucovića 12
Jewish Historical Museum, 7 July St. 11/11000 Belgrade
"Lavoslav Schwarz" Home for the Aged, Bukovačka Cesta 41000 R 55 Zagreb
The Synagogue
Maršala Birjuzova 11001 R 19 Belgrade
Dobrovoljačka 71000 R 83 Sarajevo
51 Filipovića 51000 R 9 Rijeka
Telephone: 051 - 25919

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Palmotićeva 16, 41000 Zagreb
Žudioska 3, 50000 Dubrovnik (Jewish Street) part of the synagogue
dating back to 1352.
Zaire
⟦line⟧
- The Israelite Community in Shaba, P.O. Box 931 Lubumbashi
Zimbabwe - Rhodesia
⟦line⟧
African Jewish Board of Deputies, 218 Abercorn House, 12th Avenue,
Abercorn Street, P.O. Box 1456 Bulawayo
Hebrew Congregation, 31 Abercorn Street, P.O. Box 337 Bulawayo
Hebrew Congregation, Jewish Centre at Milton Park, Lezard Avenue, P.O. Box
342 Salisbury
Representative Jewish Centre (Temple Beth Shalom), Ward 4, 24 Bridesford Road,
P.O. Box 828 Salisbury
Sephardic Hebrew Congregation of Zimbabwe - Rhodesia, 54 Montagu Avenue,
P.O. Box 1051 Salisbury

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Brazil:
⟦line⟧
Chief Rabbinate: R. Blumenfeld
Caixa Postal No. 12060
Telephone: 255 - 01 - 91
Denmark:
⟦line⟧
Chief Rabbinate: Bent Melchior
27 Frederiksborggade 1360 Copenhagen K
Ireland:
⟦line⟧
Chief Rabbinate: Dr. Isaac Cohen
Office of the Chief Rabbinate: Zion Schools, Bloomfield Avenue Dublin 8
Telephone: 755172
France:
⟦line⟧
Chief Rabbinate: Jacob Kaplan
Consistoire Central 17 Rue Saint-Georges Paris 9e
Telephone: 526 . 02 . 56
Great Britain
⟦line⟧
Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits
Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of the British Commonwealth

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Adler House . Tavistock Square . London
W . C 1
Telephone: 1 - 387 1066 .
Rabbi of the Sephardi Community Organization (Acting) Rabbi Dr. Solomon Gaon
2 Ashworth Road . London . W9 1JY
Telephone: 01 - 289 2573 .
Greece
Rabbi Yacov Arar (Athens Jewish Community)
5 Melidoni Street . Athens (Jewish Community of Athens)
Telephone: (01) 352773
Rabbi Eli Sabetay (Central Board of Jewish Communities)
Central Council of Jewish Organizations) 46B Tsalidari Street . Athens
Telephone: (021) 5224389
Rabbi Azaria Sabital Tsimiski 24 P.O. Box Thessaloniki
Telephone: 270487 and 221124
Netherlands
Chief Rabbi Eliezer Berlinger
Springweg 164 Telephone: 314742
Residence . Amsterdam, Apollolaan 6

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Hungary
⟦line⟧
- Chief Rabbi Dr. István Der (Conservative)
Dr. László Salgó (Conservative)
Rabbi Marton Weiss, Chief Rabbinate Center Síp utca Budapest 711
Israel
⟦line⟧
- Chief Rabbinate (Ashkenazi) Rabbi Shlomo Goren . Jerusalem
Chief Rabbinate (Sephardi) Rabbi Ovadia Yosef . Jerusalem
Italy
⟦line⟧
- Chief Rabbinate of Rome: Rabbi Dr. Elio Toaff
Via (Street) Catalana 00186 RA
Rome - Telephone: 655219 Synagogue Office 564807
Chief Rabbinate in Milan . Rabbi Elia Kopciowski
Via (Street) Guastalla 19 Milan
Telephone: 791851 (Office) and 8356260 (Home)
Luxembourg
⟦line⟧
- Chief Rabbi Dr. Emmanuel Bulz
45 Av. Monterey Luxembourg .

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Mexico
⟦line⟧
- Rabbi Dr. D.S. Rafalin
Atlixco 102 - 1180 Mexico City 11, D.F.
Telephone: 553 - 54 - 57
Panama
⟦line⟧
- Rabbi Sion R. Levy
Apartado 6222, Panama City
Romania
⟦line⟧
- Chief Rabbi and President of the Federation of Jewish Communities in the Socialist Republic of Romania
Dr. David Moses Rosen, Maria Rosetti St.
17 Bucharest
Telephone: 12 - 37 - 20
South Africa
⟦line⟧
- Chief Rabbi of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa
B. M. Casper
Beth Din 24 Raleigh St. P.O. Box 2183 Johannesburg

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Spain
⟦line⟧
- Rabbi Benito I. Garzón Serfaty, Calle Ramón y Cajal 33, Madrid - 33
Telephone 202 - 00 - 99
Mr. Mauricio Hatchwell Toledano
Orense 8, Madrid 20
Rabbi Yehuda Benasuly
Comunidad Israelita de Madrid, Balmes, 3 Madrid - 10
Telephone: 4459843 / 35
Switzerland
⟦line⟧
- Chief Rabbi of Geneva Dr. Alexandre Safran
11 Rue Marignac, Geneva
Telephone: 46 - 66 - 47
President of the Rabbinical Organization, Rabbi Dr. Leo Adler
7 Birmannsgasse, Basel
Telephone: 257716
Turkey
⟦line⟧
- Rabbi David Asseo
Yemenici Sokak 23 Beyoğlu, Istanbul
United States of America
⟦line⟧
- Rabbinical Alliance of America
156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 811, New York NY 10010
Telephone: 242 - 6420

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- Rabbinical Assembly
3080 Broadway, New York NY 10027
Telephone: 01-9-8000
- Rabbinical Council of America
84 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10011
Soviet Union
- Rabbi Yaakov Fishman, Chief Rabbi of Moscow,
Moskovskaya, Religioznaya Evreyskaya Obshchina
Ul Arkhipova 8 Moscow
Venezuela
- Chief Rabbi Pincas Brener
Union Israelita de Caracas AV. Marques del Toro 9
San Bernardino Caracas 101
Telephone: 515253
Rabbi Isaac Gabay
Gran Rabinato de Maracaibo AV. 11 Col 74
Edif. Kelsal Maracaibo
Telephone: 70333 (Office) 77978 (Home)

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Evolution of the Yishuv
Year | Jewish Population
1890 | 47,000
1914 | 85,000
1918 | 56,000
1927 | 150,000
1931 | 175,000
1935 | 355,000
1946 | 608,000
1948 | 650,000
1949 | 901,000
1950 | 1,050,000
1951 | 1,324,000
1952 | 1,450,000
1953 | 1,475,000
1954 | 1,530,000
1955 | 1,591,000
1956 | 1,630,000
1957 | 1,750,000
1959 | 1,885,000
1960 | 1,950,000
1961 | 2,045,000
1962 | 2,125,000

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Year | Jewish Population
1963 | 2,195,000
1964 | 2,242,165
1965 | 2,320,000
1967 | 2,383,800
1968 | 2,435,300
1969 | 2,497,000
1971 | 2,610,000
1972 | 2,701,550
1973 | 2,784,100
1974 | 2,853,545
1975 | 2,921,000
1976 | 3,020,000
1977 | 3,077,300
1978 | 3,141,200
1979 (July) | 3,182,200

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Aliyah
Year | Immigrants
1892 - 1914 | 60,000
1919 | 1,806
1921 | 8,294
1922 | 8,685
1923 | 8,175
1924 | 13,892
1925 | 34,386
1926 | 13,855
1927 | 3,034
1928 | 2,178
1929 | 5,249
1930 | 4,944
1931 | 4,075
1932 | 12,553
1933 | 37,337
1934 | 45,467
1935 | 66,472
1936 | 29,727
1937 | 10,536
1938 | 14,675
1939 | 31,195

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Year | Immigrants
1940 | 10,643
1941 | 4,592
1942 | 4,206
1943 | 10,063
1944 | 15,552
1945 | 15,259
1946 | 18,760
1947 | 22,298
1948 | 118,992
1949 | 239,576
1950 | 170,249
1951 | 175,095
1952 | 14,369
1954 | 18,370
1955 | 37,478
1956 | 56,234
1957 | 71,224
1958 | 27,082
1959 | 23,895
1960 | 24,510
1961 | 47,638
1962 | 61,328
1963 | 64,364

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Year | Immigrants
1964 | 54,716
1965 | 33,698
1966 | 18,510
1967 | 18,065
1968 | 20,696
1969 | 32,900
1970 | 38,000
1971 | 41,000
1972 | 55,800
1973 | 41,470
1974 | 43,725
1975 | 22,000
1976 | 20,000
1977 | 21,429
1978 | 26,394
1979 (July) | 20,851