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OU’s Jewish Communities Fair
April 30th, 2017“OU Jewish Communities Fair provides information and resources to families and individuals wishing to improve their quality of life by relocating to affordable Jewish Communities that offer professional opportunities in the US and Israel in partnership with Nefesh B’Nefesh.”
Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W 18th St
New York, NYTime: 12 PM – 6PM
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This is so genius! Who is going?
Also… Now we have more answers for that Jewish Communities thread. Did we get them all? How come we can only do one per state?
I am answering while CTL’s response is being moderated.
The OU does not affiliate themselves with an OO shule.
As for the mikvoat, why do they have to mention the Chabad milvoat? Are they the pnly ones in town?
Lightbrite……
In many cases they do include Chabah Mikvaot.
For example: I went to the OU website and used its ‘synagogue locator’ I chose the state of Kansas. There were three results:
An OU member synagogue
The Chabad Mikvah
The Community Mikvah.You must remember the OU is a member organization and synagogues pay a head tax. If a community has a member synagogue with its own mikvak the OU would be doing that member a disservice by also posting a non-member mikvah that could take revenue away from the member organization.
Slightly over 25 years ago I was President of an OU member dues paying shul in a small community that had 7 orthodox synagogues…..4 were OU members, 1 belonged to Young Israel, 1 to Chabad and one was independent. We, member synagogues would be very upset if the OU database led prospective members to non-member synagogues.
Today, when I look at the synagogue locator for that city, it shows both member and non-member synagogues, but puts a large logo on the member congregations.
That city has both a community mikvah and a Chabad mikvah. The community mikvah is open to all. The Chabad mikvah is attached to a private home and is only open to the Chabad community (and in rare circumstances their guests). The Chabad mikvah is not on the OU list.
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