Source: Good News Network
175 years ago today, Henry Jones and 11 others founded B’nai B’rith in New York City—the oldest Jewish service organization in the world. The new group’s constitution called for: “Visiting and attending the sick” and “protecting and assisting the widow and the orphan.” Since 1865, it has also assisted victims of natural and manmade disasters—from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, to the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti and Chile.
Just six weeks after the signing of the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978, B’nai B’rith was the first Jewish group to visit that Arab country at the invitation of President Anwar Sadat. (1843)It also is involved in politics, combats anti-semitism, advocates for health care and social security, and sponsors housing for Jewish seniors with its network of 36 residence buildings in over 27 cities.
MORE Good News on this Day:
- The cornerstone of the White House was laid during a ceremony in the new capital of the United States, Washington, D.C. (1792)
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