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An organization's history,
when well presented on its website . . .
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Welcomes and informs
potential members, clients and donors.
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Shows how you evolved and
grew, meeting challenges over the years.
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Refreshes
memories and warms the hearts of long-time members and supporters.
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Recognizes and honors the leaders
and donors who did so much
to advance your mission.
How do Cleveland's Jewish organizations
tell of their history on
their websites?
(For a brief look at how Cleveland's major cultural institutions
do this,
click here.)
This page will help you find the history page on the websites
of many Cleveland Jewish
organizations. Click on the name of the organization to visit its
website.
Click on the "history" link, if there is one, to visit
its History page.
For your convenience, these links open pages in a new window of
your browser. Close the window to return to this page.
All
links and pages reviewed as of August 31, 2010.
If this page reports a technical problem, be assured that the
organization was promptly informed.
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Organization Name -
year founded |
History |
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Note |
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Education |
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Agnon School
- 1969 |
nothing |
8/2010 |
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Jewish
Education Center - 1924 |
history |
8/2010 |
27 words |
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Siegal College of
Judaic Studies - 1952 |
history |
8/2010 |
three excellent pages |
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Social Welfare |
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Bellefaire-Jewish
Childrens Bureau - 1868 |
history |
8/2010 |
one small page |
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Jewish
Community Center - 1899 |
nothing |
8/2010 |
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Jewish
Family Services - 1875 |
history |
8/2010 |
video only
note 1 |
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Menorah Park
- 1906 |
nothing |
8/2010 |
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Montefiore
- 1882 |
history |
8/2010 |
excellent
note
2 |
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Mount Sinai
Health Care Foundation - 1892 |
history |
8/2010 |
12 lines |
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Cleveland Jewish
News - 1964 |
history |
8/2010 |
basic, all text, not current |
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Jewish
Federation of Cleveland - 1903 |
history |
8/2010 |
six lines
note 3 |
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Maltz Museum of
Jewish Heritage - 2005 |
nothing |
8/2010 |
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Congregations (links are to their history page)
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Anshe
Chesed Fairmount Temple - 1841 (good and well illustrated) |
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Beth
Israel - The West Temple
- 1954
(text only, good, history ends in early 1990s) |
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B'nai
Jeshurun - 1866 (old style with tiny images, still the best of the "shul" history pages) |
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Cedar
Road Synagogue - Kehillat Yaakov -
1899 (well
written, text only, stops ca. 1990) |
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Heights
Jewish Center - 1860 ? (text only, good but history should
start in 1860, not 1922) |
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Kol
HaLev - 1993 (good, up-to-date but text only) |
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Oheb Zedek - Taylor Road Synagogue -
1904 (www.trshul.com not working
8/30/10) |
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Park Synagogue -
1857
(good but ends in 1992) |
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Shaarey Tikvah
- 1940 (short, with only two images) |
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Suburban
Temple - Kol Ami - 1948 (all text,
up-to-date.) |
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The
Temple-Tifereth Israel - 1850 (regressing - once had images and is
now text only) |
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Notes:
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(1) The Jewish Family Services Association, founded in 1875 as the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society,
has been changing to meet community needs for 135 years. Its
History page, once blank, now offers a video: Faces Not Forgotten - A JFSA Retrospective. But for those
whose internet setup doesn't support video or who aren't willing to devote 12 minutes to watching
the video, no other history is provided: no text, no images.
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Technical problem: The JFSA video must
be viewed with Apple's QuickTimeŽ software. Unfortunately the latest free
version of QuickTime on a PC shows the video (dark rectangle in center) in a
window only 5" diagonal
that can't be enlarged to fill the screen.
This video would be very effective shown
to a group on a large (say 42" diagonal) monitor. It would be enjoyable
for one person to watch on a 17" monitor. But the 5" window is just too small. We hope this video will re-installed in a way that
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(2) Montefiore's
128 years and
counting is a long, well-illustrated chronology since 1882.
This page is well crafted and easy to read. It is a model
for other organizations to follow - not just in the way it presents history, giving credit to many
who helped shape it, but also in its balance between images and text and
because it is being kept
up to date.
(3) Federation's
History page
is perhaps the second best page on the history of our community. (See
the number one page.) But only six lines are about Federation's own
history - the more than 100 years of growth and change that have made it one
of our nation's leading Federations. The recent move to Beachwood is not
mentioned. A linked page of logos over the years does show the recent
change of name. Oddly, this History page, which could have linked to more
than 20 websites, links to only one. (Might it be the "shul" of the web programmer?)
Webkeeper's
note:
This page was created January 2007 and last
completely reviewed in August 2010.
The opinions expressed are based on my experience creating
synagogue and other Jewish websites since 1998. Corrections
and comments are
welcome.
Arnold Berger Email arnie AT clevelandjewishhistory
DOT net
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