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•Noon-4:00 p.m.
for Jewish Education between Noon and 2:00 p.m.
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• D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building
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• 4`G OM MAAS

PURIM
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Elizabeth Applebaum •
AppleTree Editor

FYI: Some notable Jewish
firsts
#The first Jewish prayer book
published in the United States was
I Prayers for Shabbath, Rosh-
I Hashanah and Yom Kippur trans-
, lated.,by Isaac Pinto and printed
in 1766 by John Holt of New
York. It had 196 pages.
* The first organized rabbinic
I conference was held in October
1855. It was a meeting of Reform
I leaders who united "to better the
i spiritual conditions of the Jews in
America; to strip the Jewish divine
services of heathenism and idola-
trous customs; to weed out sense-
: less and useless prayers, and to
establish a uniform divine service
throughout the land." The confer-
: ence was organized by Rabbi
Isidor Kalisch.
The first known Jewish congre-
gation in the United States was
Shearith Israel, which was orga-
nized in 1655 in New
I Amsterdam (today, New York
City). Sephardim fleeing an inqui-
I sition in Brazil formed the sync-
: gogue on Mill Street. The founda-
tion stones of the new building
were laid on Sept. 8, 1729.
* The first Jewish university estab-
I lished in the United States was
I Yeshiva College, founded in 1928.
The school's first president was
1 Bernard Revel, and the first graduat-
ing class of the new school consist-
' ed of 19 students, who earned
I bachelor's degrees in 1932. In
1945 Yeshiva College changed its
name and remains Yeshiva
I University, affiliated with the
Orthodox movement, to this day.

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or
make parcels at home with your family. Decorate several plates or
baskets. Include fresh or packaged dried fruit, kosher packaged
nuts, wrapped candy, or small packages of kosher cookies and
crackers. Please include at least 2 kinds of food.

to the

between Noon and 2:00 p.m.

Help deliver parcels to sweeten the lives of others in our
community.

Sponsored by Jewish Experiences
for Families (J.E.EF.), a division of
the Agency for Jewish Education,
and by the Jewish News.

We will
deliver parcels to: Shalom Detroit newcomers, Jewish New
Americans, Jewish Home and Aging Services residents, Group
Apartments for the Elderly of Jewish Family Service, Kosher
Meals on Wheels recipients, and others.

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