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Ploni

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Lists
List of Canadian Jews List of fellows of the Fields Institute List of Jewish mathematicians

Organisations and institutions

Agudat Ḥovevei Sfat Ever (est. early 1900s)
Baron Byng High School (est. 1921)
Beth Tzedec Congregation (est. 1955)
Biblists (est. c. 1925)
Camp Achvah (est. 1927)
Camp B'nai Brith (Montreal) (est. 1921)
Camp B'nai Brith (Ottawa) (est. 1935)
Camp Massad (Manitoba) (est. 1953)
Camp Massad (Montreal) (est. 1947)
Camp Massad (Poconos) (est. 1941)
Canadian Young Judaea (est. c. 1917)
Cejwin Camps (est. 1919)
École Maïmonide (est. 1969)
Einstein Institute of Mathematics (est. 1925)
Great Synagogue (Brody) (est. 1742)
Israel Mathematical Union (est. 1953)
Jewish People's and Peretz Schools (est. 1913)
Judith Lady Montefiore College (est. 1869)
Mekitze Nirdamim (est. 1861)
Okbarites (est. 9th century)
Pripstein's Camp Mishmar (est. 1941)
United Jewish People's Order (est. 1926)

Publications and poetry
Bikkure ha-Ittim (1820–1831) Eli Tsiyon ve-Areha Mishnat ha-Middot Ha-Asif (1884–1894) Ha-Karmel (1860–1880) Ha-Shaḥar (1868–1884) Ha-Shiloaḥ (1896–1926) He-Ḥalutz (1852–1889) Keneder Adler (1907–1977) L'Antijuif (1898–1899) Sefer Refuot

Events
Fornaraki affair (1881) Paks Conference (1844) Yahrzeit

Other
Judaism and sneezing

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