Jewish Centre

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Jewish Centre

organization, New York City, New York, United States

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Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
In 1916 he organized the Jewish Centre in New York, a secular community organization with a synagogue as its nucleus, the first of its kind in the United States, and was its rabbi until 1922. In that year he established the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, which later became…
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In 1916 he organized the Jewish Centre in New York, a secular community organization with a synagogue as its nucleus, the first of its kind in the United States, and was its rabbi until 1922. In that year he established the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, which later became…
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