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Hebrew Free Burial Association

Index Hebrew Free Burial Association

The Hebrew Free Burial Association (HFBA) was established in 1888 as a free burial society serving the residents of Manhattan's Lower East Side. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 70 relations: Abraham Joshua Heschel School, Candid (organization), COVID-19 pandemic, Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys, Dental school, Dissection, Epidemic, Executive director, Frisch School, Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, History of the Jews in Russia, Immigration, Israel, Jewish Educational Center, Jews, List of chiropractic schools, Lower East Side, Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School, Manhattan, Manhattan Day School, Manila, Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, Medical school, Mel Brooks, Morgue, Mortality rate, Mount Sinai Jewish Center, New Guinea, New York (state), New York City, New York Daily News, New York metropolitan area, New York Post, Nonprofit organization, North Shore Hebrew Academy, Oheb Shalom Congregation, Poet, Potter's field, President (corporate title), Rambam Mesivta, Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy, Rikers Island, Russia, Russian language, Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy, SAR High School, Schechter Day School Network, Shalhevet High School, SINAI Special Needs Institute, ... Expand index (20 more) »

  2. Jewish cemeteries in New York City

Abraham Joshua Heschel School

The Abraham Joshua Heschel School (AJHS) is a pluralistic nursery to 12th grade Jewish day school in New York City named in memory of Abraham Joshua Heschel, a major Jewish leader, teacher, and activist of the 20th century. Hebrew Free Burial Association and Abraham Joshua Heschel School are Jewish organizations based in New York City.

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Candid (organization)

Candid is an information service specializing in reporting on U.S. nonprofit companies.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys

Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys (commonly referred to as DRS) is an Orthodox Jewish high school in Woodmere, New York.

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Dental school

A dental school (school of dental medicine, school of dentistry, dental college) is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches dental medicine to prospective dentists and potentially other dental auxiliaries.

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Dissection

Dissection (from Latin dissecare "to cut to pieces"; also called anatomization) is the dismembering of the body of a deceased animal or plant to study its anatomical structure.

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Epidemic

An epidemic (from Greek แผπฮฏ epi "upon or above" and δแฟ†μος demos "people") is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time.

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Executive director

Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer (CEO) of a company, non-profit organization, government agency or international organization.

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Frisch School

The Frisch School, also known as Yeshivat Frisch, is a coeducational, Modern Orthodox, yeshiva high school located in Paramus, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Hebrew Academy of Nassau County

The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) is a K-12, comprehensive, Modern Orthodox Jewish school system, located in Nassau County, New York.

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Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway

The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR) is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school on the South Shore of Long Island in New York, United States, serving male and female students in preschool through twelfth grade.

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History of the Jews in Russia

The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Jewish Educational Center

The Jewish Educational Center is an eighty-year-old yeshiva school located in Elizabeth, in Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades.

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Jews

The Jews (ื™ึฐื”ื•ึผื“ึดื™ื) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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List of chiropractic schools

This list of chiropractic schools is organized alphabetically by country.

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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City.

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Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School

The Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School is a private Jewish day school for girls in grades nine through twelve, located in Teaneck, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, serving the Orthodox communities of Bergen County and neighboring areas.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Manhattan Day School

Manhattan Day School, often referred to as MDS, is a co-educational Modern Orthodox Jewish yeshiva elementary school located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy

The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, also known as Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB), MTA (Manhattan Talmudical Academy) or TMSTA, is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school (or yeshiva) and the boys' prep school of Yeshiva University (YU) in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Medical school

A medical school is a tertiary educational institution, professional school, or forms a part of such an institution, that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians.

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Mel Brooks

Melvin James Brooks (born June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, songwriter, and playwright.

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Morgue

A morgue or mortuary (in a hospital or elsewhere) is a place used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification (ID), removal for autopsy, respectful burial, cremation or other methods of disposal.

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Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

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Mount Sinai Jewish Center

The Mount Sinai Jewish Center is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue that practices in the Ashkenazi rite, located in the Washington Heights and Hudson Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Hiri Motu: Niu Gini; Papua, fossilized Nugini, or historically Irian) is the world's second-largest island, with an area of.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Daily News

The New York Daily News, officially titled the Daily News, is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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New York metropolitan area

The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, encompassing.

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New York Post

The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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North Shore Hebrew Academy

North Shore Hebrew Academy (NSHA or NSHAHS) is a Modern Orthodox yeshiva located in Great Neck, New York.

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Oheb Shalom Congregation

Oheb Shalom Congregation (transliterated from Hebrew as 'Lovers of Peace') is an egalitarian, Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue located in South Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, in the United States.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Potter's field

A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or indigent people.

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President (corporate title)

A president is a leader of an organization, company, community, club, trade union, university or other group.

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Rambam Mesivta

Rambam Mesivta is a private Jewish High School in Inwood, New York.

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Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy

Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy, commonly known as RTMA or JEC High School, is a Yeshiva high school located in Elizabeth, New Jersey and a branch of the Jewish Educational Center.

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Rikers Island

Rikers Island is a prison island in the East River in the Bronx that contains New York City's largest jail.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy

Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy, better known by the acronym, SAR Academy, is a coeducational, private Modern Orthodox Jewish day school.

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SAR High School

Salanter Akiba Riverdale High School (SAR High School) is a Modern-Orthodox Jewish day school located in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York.

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Schechter Day School Network

The Schechter Day School Network, formerly the Solomon Schechter Day School Association, located at 820 Second Avenue, New York, New York, is an organization of Jewish day schools that identify with Conservative Judaism.

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Shalhevet High School

The Jean and Jerry Friedman Shalhevet High School is a co-educational, college-preparatory, Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles, California.

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SINAI Special Needs Institute

SINAI Schools is an organization based in the New York metropolitan area that provides education for children and young adults with special needs.

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Sing Sing

Sing Sing Correctional Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision in the village of Ossining, New York, United States.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spanish flu

The 1918–1920 flu pandemic, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or by the common misnomer Spanish flu, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 subtype of the influenza A virus.

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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York.

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Staten Island Advance

The Staten Island Advance is a daily newspaper published in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls

Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school, a college preparatory high school for grades 9–12, located in Hewlett Bay Park in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Leffell School

The Leffell School (formerly Solomon Schechter School of Westchester) is a K–12 private, co-educational, Jewish day school in New York, United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Torah Academy of Bergen County

Torah Academy of Bergen County (commonly referred to as TABC) is a four-year yeshiva high school located in Teaneck, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA), also referred to metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yavneh Academy (New Jersey)

The Yavneh Academy is a Modern Orthodox Jewish day school located in Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Yeshiva Derech HaTorah

Yeshiva Derech HaTorah is an Orthodox Jewish elementary school and high school for boys in Brooklyn, New York. Hebrew Free Burial Association and Yeshiva Derech HaTorah are Jewish organizations based in New York City.

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Yeshiva University

Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City. Hebrew Free Burial Association and Yeshiva University are Jewish organizations based in New York City.

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Yeshivah of Flatbush

The Yeshivah of Flatbush is a Modern Orthodox private Jewish day school located in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, New York.

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501(c)(3) organization

A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code.

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See also

Jewish cemeteries in New York City

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Free_Burial_Association

Also known as HFBA.

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