SummaryJewish Center Bulletin. Reproduction of 1922 issue in honor of Center's founding rabbi Israel H. Levinthal on his 90th birthday. Brooklyn Jewish Center was established in 1920 to create a Synagogue Center offering a wide range of services to the Jewish community including a sanctuary, wedding ballroom, day school, swimming pool, and health club, full-service kosher restaurant and an extensive adult education program. In the 1980's with the changing Jewish population in the neighborhood, it became the premier yeshiva for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch Movement: Oholei Torah.
NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Original pamphlet digitized on 2022 February 28, by Ariane Loeb at Center for Brooklyn History. Collected through the Brooklyn Collection Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
SubjectJews--Education--United States ; Community centers ; Yeshivas
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TitleBrooklyn Jewish Center collection. Jewish Center Bulletin. Dedication number, December 31, 1922, Tebeth 12, 5683.
Biographical NoteBrooklyn Jewish Center was established in 1920 to create a Synagogue Center offering a wide range of services to the Jewish community including a sanctuary, ballroom, day school, swimming pool, health club, full-service kosher restaurant and an extensive adult education program. The center's founding rabbi was Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal. From the 1920s to the 1980s the Center was an important gathering point for the Jewish community. In the 1980s given changes in the Jewish population in the neighborhood, it was gifted to the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement and became the Oholei Torah Yeshiva.