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Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) Records

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Identifier: I-120
Abstract The Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1920 when the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools and Bureau of Jewish Religious Schools merged under the leadership of Louis Hurwich. While not the first centralized Jewish education organization in the country, the BJE was the first to receive support from its local Federation. From 1920 to 2009, the BJE provided consultation, evaluation and teacher training services using a variety of methods and tools. It worked...
Dates: undated, 1926-1992

Bureau of Jewish Education (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-497
Abstract The Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) in Boston, Massachusetts, was founded in 1920 when the Associated Boston Hebrew Schools and Bureau of Jewish Religious Schools merged under the leadership of Louis Hurwich. While not the first centralized Jewish education organization in the country, the BJE was the first to receive support from its local Federation. From 1920 to 2009, the BJE provided consultation, evaluation and teacher training services using a variety of methods and tools. It worked...
Dates: undated, 1919-2009

Chevra Kedusha (Boston, Mass.) Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-185
Abstract Chevra Kadusha of Boston is an independent, non-denominational organization of individuals, synagogues, universities and other Jewish institutions committed to making the full range of burial rituals accessible and available to the entire Jewish community. It was organized and instituted in 1856. The collection contains two versions of the constitution of Chevra Kedusha as well as the board minutes (1892-1904, 1911-1974), financial records (1933-1968), and a ledger recording payments of...
Dates: undated, 1856-1981

Dewey D. Stone Papers

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Identifier: P-529 and P-529A
Abstract Contains papers and photos including correspondence and other materials relating to work as Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine (and Israel), as National Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, as a leading campaigner for Israel Bonds, and as co-founder of and Chairman of the Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science; 2 texts of radio broadcasts made in 1948 informing America about the Israeli war for independence and the new Israeli republic; a list of military equipment supplied by...
Dates: undated, 1916-1984

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston Records

 Collection
Identifier: I-123 and I-123A
Abstract This collection includes material preceding and relating to the founding of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), including early papers of the local American Jewish Committee and the Central Advisory Committee (a predecessor agency),the constitution and by-laws of the JCRC, material relating to organizational membership in and representation in the organizations, correspondence of the officers and staff, minutes of meetings and proceedings of its Administrative...
Dates: undated, 1933-2008

Rabb Family and Stop & Shop Collection

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Identifier: P-679
Abstract The Rabinovitz/Rabb family arrived in Boston from Russia in the 1890s. Around 1914 they founded Economy Grocery Stores, which became Stop & Shop in 1946. In addition to building their grocery company into a successful business, the family is known for its philanthropy and active involvement in the Jewish community. The collection contains materials relating to the Rabb family and to the business operations of Stop & Shop until 1989. The materials in this collection include historical...
Dates: 1912-1989

Synagogue Council of Massachusetts Records

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Identifier: I-454
Abstract The Synagogue Council of Massachusetts was founded in 1941 as the Associated Synagogues of Greater Boston (and later the Associated Synagogues of Massachusetts). The documents in this collection describe the proceedings and activities of the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, as well as those of its affiliated organizations, including the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis, the Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston, the Kashruth Commission, the Beth Din, and the Jewish Chaplaincy Council....
Dates: undated, 1908-2014

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Hebrew language -- Study and teaching -- History 2
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Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 5
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Federation of Jewish Charities of Boston 2
Hebrew Teachers College (Brookline, Mass.) 2
Hurwich, Louis, 1886-1967 2
Margolis, Daniel J. 2
Newman, Louis 2
Shrage, Barry 2
Touroff, Nissan, 1877-1953 2
American Jewish Committee 1
American Jewish Congress 1
B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League. 1
Babson College 1
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 1
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 1
Boston University 1
Brandeis University 1
Chevra Kedusha (Boston, Mass.) 1
Close, Abraham 1
Covich, Louis D. 1
Cushing, Richard, 1895-1970 1
Eban, Abba Solomon, 1915-2002 1
Edelstein, Alan 1
Fine, Arnold 1
Food Marketing Institute 1
Ford, Henry, II, 1917-1987 1
Globe Newspaper Co. 1
Goldberg, Avram J. 1
Goldberg, Carol R. 1
Grossman, Benjamin 1
Halbfinger, Abraham 1
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 1
Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts 1
Jewish Chaplaincy Council of Massachusetts 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Kashruth Commission (Mass.) 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
Kollek, Teddy, 1911-2007 1
Korff, Samuel I. 1
Kraft, Harry 1
Massachusetts Board of Rabbis 1
McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 1
Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 1
Mekhon Ṿaitsman le-madaʻ 1
National Community Relations Advisory Council (U.S.) 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 1
Rabb Family 1
Rabb, Irving W., 1913-2011 1
Rabb, Jane M. (Jane Marjorie), 1938- 1
Rabb, Norman S., 1905-1997 1
Rabb, Sidney R., 1900-1985 1
Rabbinical Association of Greater Boston 1
Rabbinical Court of Justice (Mass.) 1
Rabinovitz, Joseph, 1878-1967 1
Rabinowitz, Jacob, 1885-1967 1
Rehovot Israel. Weizmann Institute of Science 1
Rubenowitz, Herman H. 1
Saval, Maurice 1
Segal, Robert E. 1
Shubow, Joseph Shalom 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 1
Stone, Dewey David, 1900-1977 1
Stop & Shop Companies 1
Synagogue Council of Massachusetts 1
Temple Ohabei Shalom (Brookline, Mass.) 1
Teperow, Alan 1
Tichnor, Alan 1
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 1
United Jewish Appeal 1
Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim 1
Vaad Harabonim (Mass.) 1
Weisgal, Meyer Wolfe, 1894-1977 1
Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 1
Weizmann, Vera, 1882-1966 1
Wise, Stephen S. (Stephen Samuel), 1874-1949 1
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