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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Great Jewish Thinkers of the Twentieth Century: Edited with Introductory Essays
Book by Simon Noveck; Bnai Brith, Dept. of Adult Jewish Education, 1963
Subjects: Judaism
...Thinkers of the Twentieth Century The Bnai Brith Great Books Series Great...introductory essays by Simon Noveck BNAI BRITH DEPARTMENT OF ADULT JEWISH EDUCATION Copyright 1963 by the Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...
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Great Jewish Personalities in Modern Times
Book by Simon Noveck; Bnai Brith, Dept. of Adult Jewish Education, 1960
Subjects: Jews--Biography
...introductory essays by Simon Noveck BNAI BRITH DEPARTMENT OF ADULT JEWISH EDUCATION Copyright 1960 by the Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...publications being prepared by the Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...
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Contemporary Jewish Thought: A Reader
Book by Simon Noveck; Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education, 1963
Subjects: Judaism--Collections
...Jewish Thought A Reader The Bnai Brith Great Books Series Great Jewish...introductory notes by Simon Noveck BNAI BRITH DEPARTMENT OF ADULT JEWISH EDUCATION Copyright 1963 by the Bnai Brith Department of Adult Jewish Education...
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How Secure These Rights? Anti-Semitism in the United States in 1948: an Anti-Defamation League Survey
Book by Ruth G. Weintraub; Doubleday, 1949
Subjects: Civil Rights--United States, Jews--United States
...BY THE ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF BNAI BRITH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN...of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. It is, I am proud to believe, the...of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith. The chairman of that committee...
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The Trouble-Makers, an Anti-Defamation League Report
Book by Arnold Forster, Benjamin R. Epstein; Doubleday, 1952
Subjects: Minorities--United States, United States--Race Relations
...by The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith All Rights Reserved Printed in...of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith participated in the coordinated research...Chairman, Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith CONTENTS FOREWORD...
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journal articles on: BNai BRith  - 139 results

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"The Little Fuehrer Invades Los Angeles": The Emergence of a Black-Jewish Coalition after World War II
Journal article by David J. Leonard; American Jewish History, Vol. 92, 2004
Subjects: Activists--Works, African American-Jewish relations--Analysis, African American-Jewish relations--History, Jewish literature--Interpretation and construction, Jews--Religious aspects, Jews--Social aspects, Los Angeles, California--Social aspects
...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...on Race Relations), David Coleman (Bnai Brith), Leo Gallin, Henry Mayers, Anne...
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Jewish Problems: Eastern and Western Jewish Identities in Conflict at the University of Wisconsin, 1919-1941
Journal article by Jonathan Z.S. Pollack; American Jewish History, Vol. 89, 2001
Subjects: American Jews--Social aspects, Antisemitism--Social aspects, Discrimination--Social aspects, Jews, American--Social aspects
...the three Orthodox congregations, Bnai Brith lodge, or Workmens Circle chapter...population. 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...
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Hollywood, Nazism, and the Jews, 1933-41(*)
Journal article by Felicia Herman; American Jewish History, Vol. 89, 2001
Subjects: Anti-Nazi movement--History, Anti-Nazi movements--History, Antisemitism--Social aspects, Jews--Portrayals, Motion pictures--Social policy, Movies--Social aspects, Movies--Social policy, National socialism and motion pictures--Social aspects, National socialism--Social aspects
...Jews, 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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Whistling "Dixie" While Humming "Ha-Tikvah": Acculturation and Activism among Orthodox Jews in Fort Worth
Journal article by Hollace Ava Weiner; American Jewish History, Vol. 93, 2007
Subjects: American Jews--History, American Jews--Social aspects, Jewish identity--Social aspects, Jews, American--History, Jews, American--Social aspects, Jews--Identity, Jews--Social aspects, Orthodox Judaism--History
...railroad reached Fort Worth, three Bnai Brith members from Dallas visited to launch...afflicted the frontier town. (30) The Bnai Brith lodge disintegrated, and the cemetery...at the annual Purim ball. (73) The Bnai Brith Lodge, organized in 1901, included...
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The Mixers: The Role of Rabbis Deep in the Heart of Texas
Journal article by Hollace Ava Weiner; American Jewish History, Vol. 85, 1997
Subjects: Rabbis--Social aspects, Texas--Religious aspects
...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...
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Shoah: Enough Already?
Magazine article by Richard Neuhaus; National Review, Vol. 39, June 5, 1987
Subjects: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith--Reports, Antisemitism--Reports, Christianity and antisemitism--Reports, Christianity--Reports, Shoah (Motion picture)--Public opinion
...fundamentalist leaders convened by the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith in New York City. The ADL has just issued an important study showing...thanks in large part to the work of the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, that exchange has begun.
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A.D.L. and the Christian Right
Magazine article by Daniel Levitas; The Nation, Vol. 260, June 19, 1995
Subjects: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith--Political activity, Christian Coalition--Political activity, Religious Right (American politics)--Political activity, Religious right--Political activity
...For this, Reed can thank the Anti-defamation League of Bnai Brith (A.D.L.) and a small but in-fluential cadre of neoconservative...insensitivities on both sides of this issue. Last June Bnai Briths Anti-Defamation League released a report on the...
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Courting Disaster
Magazine article by Frank Donner; The Nation, Vol. 239, October 6, 1984
Subjects: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith--Political activity, Isaac, Erich, Isaac, Rael Jean, Jews in the United States--Political activity, Perlmutter, Nathan, Perlmutter, Ruth Ann, The Coercive Utopians (book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Real Anti-Semitism in America (book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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 to...
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Spy Networks I: The A.D.L
Magazine article by Alexander Cockburn; The Nation, Vol. 256, May 3, 1993
Subjects: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith--Investigations, Espionage--Investigations
...1961, 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 wrote: "Our...
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There They Go Again
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May 2007
Subjects: Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith--Evaluation, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith--Reports, Antisemitism--Prevention, Emigration and immigration--Evaluation, Ku Klux Klan--Influence
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B'nai B'rith Chief Urges Revamp of Organization
Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, September 1, 1996
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...
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2 Suspicious Parcels Cause Evacuations: After B'nai B'rith 'Anthrax' Envelope, Workers Are Jumpy, More Observant
Newspaper article by Jim Keary; The Washington Times, April 26, 1997
Subjects: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
...parcels cause evacuations: After Bnai Brith anthrax envelope, workers are jumpy...of an envelope found Thursday at Bnai Brith headquarters and suspected at the...in McLean. The area around the Bnai Brith building at 17th Street and New Jersey...
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Only a Scare, but It Ties Up Traffic, Workers for Hours: A Red 'Gelatin' Found at B'nai B'rith
Newspaper article by Gary Scheets, Walden Siew; The Washington Times, April 25, 1997
...for hours: A red gelatin found at Bnai Brith by Gary Scheets , Walden...Restaurant, across the street from Bnai Brith, said he, his employees and two customers...Argentina, was scheduled to speak at Bnai Brith last night. Looking over the scene...
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Volunteer's Commitment Typical of Jews' Groups
Newspaper article by Larry Whitham; The Washington Times, September 28, 1996
...20 years an active volunteer with Bnai Brith, a Jewish service organization, has...of five senior vice presidents of Bnai Brith International. He campaigned for...Cross or the Lions Club. While Bnai Brith has been Mr. Margolis choice, and...
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Jewish Group Pushes Awareness of Heritage: Conference Studies Identity, Survival
Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, September 3, 1996
...100 campuses, the young women of Bnai Brith will present them with a "Jewish...a 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...
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B'Nai B'Rith
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BNAI BRITH b na brith Heb.,= Sons of the Covenant, oldest and largest Jewish...students), the Anti-Defamation League (a civil-rights organization), and Bnai Brith Women. Bnai Brith has about 500,000 members in 58 countries. The national office, located...


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