The Morris Winchevsky School (founded in 1928) is a supplemental Jewish school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The focus of the curriculum is on strengthening ties to Jewish culture and heritage within a secular humanist framework. Key focuses are...
Morris Winchevsky (Yiddish: מאָריס װינטשעװסקי; born as Leopold Benzion Novokhovitch; August 9 1856–March 18 1932), also known as Ben Netz, was born in Jonava, Lithuania, and grew up in nearby Kovne. He had a varied early life during which he moved...
The United Jewish People's Order is a Jewish cultural, political and educational fraternal organization in Canada. It is secular and socialist. The UJPO traces its history to the founding of the Jewish Labour League Mutual Benefit Society in 1926.
Gerald Allan Cohen ( KOH-ən; 14 April 1941 – 5 August 2009) was a Canadian political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls...
Camp Naivelt (Yiddish: קעמפּ נײַוועלט, lit. 'Camp New World') is a left-wing secular Jewish camping community in Brampton, Ontario, founded in 1925 as a children's summer camp, Camp Kindervelt (Yiddish: קעמפּ קינדערוועלט). It is affiliated with the...
This is a list of Jewish communities in the North America, including yeshivas, Hebrew schools, Jewish day schools and synagogues. A yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבה) is a center for the study of Torah and the Talmud in Orthodox Judaism. A yeshiva usually is...
The Worker's Friend Group was an English Jewish anarchist group which was active in the East End of London in the early 1900s. It was associated with the weekly Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper Arbeter Fraint (Worker's Friend). It was centered...
Morris Hillquit (August 1, 1869 – October 8, 1933) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America and prominent labor lawyer in New York City's Lower East Side. Together with Eugene V. Debs and Congressman Victor L. Berger, Hillquit was...
The Jewish Socialist Federation (JSF) was a secular Jewish Yiddish-oriented organization founded in 1912 which acted as a language federation in the Socialist Party of America (SPA). Many of the founding members of the JSF had previously been...
Baruch Charney Vladeck (Yiddish: ברוך טשאַרני וולאַדעק; born Baruch Nachman Charney; January 13, 1886 – October 30, 1938) was a Belarusian-born Jewish American labor leader, journalist and politician who was general manager of The Jewish Daily...
