Guyana Presidents Son Puts on Tefillin, Receives Matzah for First Time by Uziel Scheiner chabad.org When Rabbi Avromy Super couldnt find a direct flight home to St.
American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.[5] Today the Jewish community in the United States consists primarily of Ashkenazi Jews, who descend from diaspora Jewish populations of Central and Eastern Europe and compose about 9095% of the American Jewish population.[6][7] Canadian and American Jews as percentage of population by state/province During the colonial era, prior to the mass immigration of Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews who arrived via Portugal represented the bulk of America's then-small Jewish population, and while their descendants are a minority today, they, along with an array of other Jewish communities, represent the remainder of American Jews, including other more recent Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, Beta Israel-Ethiopian Jews, various other ethnically Jewish communities, as well as a smaller number of converts to Judaism.
Until my early adulthood, I had no family names or faces to connect with the Holocaust. I always assumed that, on my fathers side, any members of his extended Lithuanian family who didnt manage to escape their shtetls for America or elsewhere had become victims of the Nazis.
The following essay has been adapted from Who Shall Lead Us: The Story of Five Hasidic Dynasties in America, by Samuel Heilman (University of California Press). In his old age, Yoelish Teitelbaum, the first Satmar Rebbe, had outlived his heirs
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