B'NAI B'RITH

bənāˈ brĭth [Heb.,= Sons of the Covenant], oldest and largest Jewish service organization in the world, founded (1843) in New York by American Jews "to provide service to their own people and to humanity at large." The organization has branches throughout the world. Its divisions include the Hillel Foundation (for Jewish college students), the Anti-Defamation League (a civil-rights organization), and B'nai B'rith Women. B'nai B'rith has about 500,000 members in 58 countries. The national office, located in Washington, D.C., publishes the International Jewish Monthly and other periodicals.

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...The first and most important of such groups was the Bnai Brith. Founded by twelve German Jews in a New York restaurant...combined mutual aid with purely fraternal features. Bnai Brith lodges soon developed in Cincinnati, Baltimore, and...
Copyright 1963 by the Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...publications being prepared by the Bnai Brith Deparnnent of Adult Jewish Education...relevance for modern times. The Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...
Copyright 1963 by the Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...publications being prepared by the Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...relevance for modern times. The Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...
violence against Jews sweeping Romania, BNai Brith took an advocacy role; a former BNai Brith president was appointed as honorary US consul...setting the stage for decades of advocacy by BNai Brith for Jews around the world. The organization...
...individual Jew." 12 As it happens, Bnai Brith speedily established a lodge in Birmingham...368 of the International Order of Bnai Brith was "recognized as a most influential...Slaughter. 13 During those years the Bnai Brith Lodge met on the first and third...
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...Und Judische Identitat in Den Orden Bnai Brith Und Treue Schwestern, 1843-1914...und judische Identitat in den Orden Bnai Brith und Treue Schwestern, 1843-1914...offering a detailed account of the Bnai Brith order and its womens organization...
...Los Angeles. The headline in the Bnai Brith Messenger captured the concern of...Angeles. (30) An editorial in the Bnai Brith Messenger captured this proactive...Race Relations), David Coleman (Bnai Brith), Leo Gallin, Henry Mayers, Anne...
...the three Orthodox congregations, Bnai Brith lodge, or Workmens Circle chapter...Like its parent organization, Bnai Brith, Hillel was intended to be a place...attention through a photo in the Bnai Brith Magazine, illustrating how his athletic...
...together, Fort Worths Jews created a Bnai Brith chapter in 1902, a Hebrew Relief...fellow Texas rabbis, worked with Bnai Brith to resettle 8,164 illegal European Jews south of the border.(160) Bnai Brith opened a Mexico City Bureau that...
...the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith (ADL), the American Jewish Committee...Council of Jewish Women, and even a Bnai Brith group in Hollywood that was apparently...while its parent organization, Bnai Brith, financed the exhibition of Sons...
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...For this, Reed can thank the Anti-defamation League of Bnai Brith (A.D.L.) and a small but in-fluential cadre of...insensitivities on both sides of this issue. Last June Bnai Briths Anti-Defamation League released a report on the...
...letter from A.D.L. director Benjamin Epstein to Saul Joftes, executive secretary of the international council of Bnai Brith. Epstein was looking for $25,000 to Finance A.D.L. investigative work. In justification of such efforts, he...
Courting Disaster. by Frank Donner On February 14 the Anti-Befamation League of Bnai Brith (A.D.L.) sponsored a luncheon, one of a series dealing with books of importance to American Jewry. The session was devoted...
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Bnai Brith chief urges revamp of organization by Larry Witham The president of Bnai Brith International yesterday urged its voting...appropriate balance is achieved between Bnai Brith International and Bnai Brith in our communities...
...parcels cause evacuations: After Bnai Brith anthrax envelope, workers are jumpy...of an envelope found Thursday at Bnai Brith headquarters and suspected at the...home in McLean. The area around the Bnai Brith building at 17th Street and New Jersey...
...for hours: A red gelatin found at Bnai Brith by Gary Scheets , Walden Siew A red...Restaurant, across the street from Bnai Brith, said he, his employees and two...Argentina, was scheduled to speak at Bnai Brith last night. Looking over the scene...
...100 campuses, the young women of Bnai Brith will present them with a "Jewish...unifying theme at the five-day Bnai Brith International conference in Washington...from." As evident in an array of Bnai Brith initiatives in 56 countries, the...
...20 years an active volunteer with Bnai Brith, a Jewish service organization...of five senior vice presidents of Bnai Brith International. He campaigned for...Red Cross or the Lions Club. While Bnai Brith has been Mr. Margolis choice, and...
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BNAI BRITH b na brith Heb.,= Sons of the Covenant, oldest and largest Jewish...Anti-Defamation League (a civil-rights organization), and Bnai Brith Women. Bnai Brith has about 500,000 members in 58 countries. The national office...


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