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The Greater Seattle Chapter of the American Jewish Committee (now called the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Seattle Regional Office) was formed in January 1946. The organization was an affiliate of t...
Chevra Bikur Cholim (Hebrew for Society for visiting the sick) incorporated in Seattle in 1891 with the purpose of caring for the sick and providing proper burial. Within a decade it had evolved into ...
Congregation Machzikay Hadath (Jewish) was incorporated on March 11, 1930. Machzikay Hadath was founded to be more strictly orthodox than any congregation in the city. On October 7, 1979, Machzikay Ha...
Nathan Eckstein was a prominent Seattle citizen who came to the region after being in the grocery business for 10 years in New York. He married Mina Schwabacher in 1902 and served as vice president an...
Jacob Furth played a pivotal role in the development of Seattle's public transportation and electric power infrastructure, and he was the founder of Seattle National Bank. As the agent for the utiliti...
Caroline Rosenberg Kline Galland, an early and important Seattle philanthropist, devoted her life to serving the community. Her will bequeathed funds for a home for the Jewish aged and for other chari...
In 1875, Bailey Gatzert became the first and to date (2005) only Jewish mayor of Seattle. Gatzert was partner and general manager of Schwabacher and Co., one of Seattle's earliest hardware and general...
Hadassah, a Jewish women's organization, was founded with the goals of fostering Zionist ideals in America through education and to begin public health nursing and nurses' training in Palestine. Gisel...
The Hebrew Education and Free Loan Association, incorporated in 1914, had the purpose of providing interest-free loans to Seattle's needy. The initial membership of the organization was 60, with dues ...
The Hebrew Ladies Free Loan Society grew out of a whist (card game) and sewing club established in 1909 by women from Bikur Cholim synagague. Bikur Cholim's rabbi refused to accept the women's offer o...
Seattle's Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, originally called Herzl's congregation, was named after Theodore Herzl (1860-1904), founder of the World Zionist Organization. It incorporated on S...
The Caroline Kline Galland Home, located in the Seward Park neighborhood of southeast Seattle, is a skilled nursing home for Jewish seniors. For more than 90 years Seattle's Jewish community has ralli...
The National Council of Jewish Women, Seattle section, founded in 1900, is a volunteer organization inspired by Jewish values that works to improve the quality of life for women, children, and familie...
In June 1902, the first Sephardic Jews, Solomon Calvo (1879-1964) and Jacob (Jack) Policar (d. 1961), arrived in Seattle from Marmara, Turkey. In 1904, Nissim Alhadeff arrived from the Isle of Rhodes....
On October 11, 1869, the firm Schwabacher Bros. & Company first advertises merchandise purveyed in their Seattle store. The store, which is to become a longstanding and important Seattle enterpris...
In the spring of 1870, Edward S. Salomon (1836-1913) takes office as governor of Washington Territory. He serves from the spring of 1870 to the spring of 1872. As of 2003, he has been Washington's onl...
On August 2, 1875, Bailey Gatzert (1829-1893) is elected as the first and to date (2005) only Jewish mayor of Seattle.
In 1883, Seattle Jews found B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 342, a Jewish fraternal organization. American Jews founded the parent organization in October 1843 in New York City to provide service to their own ...
In September 1887, Seattle's Jewish residents hold the first documented High Holiday services (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) at the Knights of Pythias Hall in the Opera House Building at the northeast...
On July 25, 1889, Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, Seattle's first Jewish congregation, is established in time for the High Holiday services that year.
On November 17, 1891, in Seattle, Chevra Bikur Cholim (Hebrew: Society for Visiting the Sick) incorporates with the purpose of caring for the sick and providing proper burial. This is the origin of th...
On March 7, 1892, Esther Levy (1839-1920) calls together 37 women to form the Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society, Seattle's first Jewish welfare society. She and her daughter, Lizzie Cooper (d. 1915), a...
In 1895, in Seattle, Goldie Schucklin, an ardent fundraiser and dedicated Jewish community volunteer, founds the Ladies Montefiore Aid, a welfare organization. The Society was active until 1936, when ...
On May 29, 1899, Temple de Hirsch is founded in Seattle on principles of reform Jewish thought. Today (2005), it is the largest Reform congregation in the Pacific Northwest.
In 1902, the first two Sephardic Jews (of Spanish origin), Jacob (Jack) Policar (d. 1961) and Solomon Calvo (1879-1964), arrive in Seattle from the island of Marmara, Turkey.
In 1906, the Seattle Section of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) founded Settlement House (renamed Neighborhood House in 1947).
On February 16, 1907, a headline in The Seattle Times discloses that Caroline Kline Galland (1841-1907) has bequeathed "A Million and a Half for Charity." Most goes to founding a Seattle home for the ...
In 1909, the Seattle Branch 304 of the Workmen's Circle is organized. Known as the Arbeiter Ring in Yiddish, it is officially a socialist worker's organization although its activities are more social ...