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Jewish Community Center

A Jewish Community Center or Jewish Community Centre is a general recreational, social and fraternal organization serving the Jewish community in a number of cities. JCCs promote Jewish culture and heritage through holiday celebrations, Israel-related programming, and Jewish education, however they are open to everyone in the community. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Jewish Community Center has hosted 12 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 1998 Speech. The year with the most events was 2004 with five events. The year with the highest average number of views per video was 2006 with an average of 1,595 views per video. Most common tags: Religious Issues, Israel, World War II.

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    Behind Enemy Lines

    As part of the Jewish Literary Festival, Marthe Cohn talked about her book, Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Je

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    Holocaust in American Life

    Mr. Novick talked about his book, The Holocaust in American Life published by Houghton Mifflin. The book describes the phenom…

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    American Judaism

    Professor Jonathan Sarna talked about his book American Judaism: A History, published by Yale University Press. He talked ab…

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    Hope and Honor

    Sidney Shachnow talked about his memoir Hope and Honor, published by Forge Books. It began with his escape from a Nazi concen…

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