Joseph Safra was a Swiss-based Lebanese Brazilian banker and billionaire businessman of Syrian descent. He was Brazil's richest man and the richest banker in the world. He ran the Brazilian banking and investment empire, Safra Group.
Edmond J. Safra was a Lebanese-Brazilian billionaire banker and philanthropist of Syrian descent. He continued his family tradition of banking in Brazil and Switzerland, and was married to Lily Watkins from 1976 until his death. He died in a fire that attracted wide media interest, and was judicially determined to be due to arson.
Lily Safra was a Brazilian-Monegasque billionaire and socialite who amassed considerable wealth through her four marriages. She had a significant art collection and owned the historic Villa Leopolda on the French Riviera. Her net worth was estimated at $1.3 billion. She became strongly engaged with philanthropy when she married the banker Edmond Safra, and this continued through their foundation after his death in 1999.
Jacob Safra was a Syrian banker and patriarch of the Safra family. The Safras were bankers and gold traders engaged in the financing of trade between Beirut, Aleppo, Istanbul and Alexandria.
The Grand Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg is the third-largest synagogue in Europe. Other names include The Great Choral Synagogue of Saint Petersburg and The Edmond J Safra Grand Choral Synagogue. Sometimes it is simply referred to as the Saint Petersburg Synagogue or Bolshaya Sinagoga. It was built between 1880 and 1888, and consecrated in December 1893. The synagogue is located at 2 Lermontovskii Prospekt, Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Chief Rabbi of Saint Petersburg is Menachem Mendel Pewzner. Today the synagogue is a registered landmark and an architectural monument of federal importance.
The International Institute for Neurosciences of Natal - Edmond and Lily Safra is located in Natal, capital city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte. It was projected and is directed by neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis. The IINN aims to decentralize research in Brazil, currently restricted to South and Southeast regions of Brazil.
The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, organized by Congregation Beit Yaakov, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue located on East 63rd Street off Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, in New York City, New York, United States. The congregation practices in the Nusach Sefard rite.
The Bradford Synagogue, officially Bradford Reform Synagogue, is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 7 Bowland Street in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, in the United Kingdom. Established as a congregation in 1873, the synagogue building was completed in 1881. The synagogue building was listed as a Grade II* building in 1989.
Asociación Bet-El is a Sephardi Orthodox synagogue in the city of Caracas that is affiliated to the Israelite Association of Venezuela. The synagogue was built between 1969 and 1973, with donations from Brazilian banker Edmond Safra, and is located in the Caracas neighborhood of San Bernardino. Currently, the community is made up mostly of Jews from Aleppo (Syria), Melilla (Spain) and northern Morocco, especially from the cities of Tetouan and Chefchaouen.
The Rabbi Dr. I. Goldstein Synagogue is a synagogue on the Edmond J. Safra Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University in Israel named in honor of Rabbi Israel Goldstein, an American-born Israeli rabbi, author, and Zionist leader. Designed by two Israeli architects—the German-born Heinrich Heinz Rau and the Brazilian-born David Resnick—it has been listed as one of the "ten most beautiful synagogues in Israel," and called "without a doubt, a landmark in local architecture."
The Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics is a research center at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The center's mission is to "advance teaching and research on ethical issues in public life." It is named for Edmond J. Safra and Lily Safra and receives support from the Edmond J. Safra Foundation. The Center for Ethics was the first Interfaculty Initiative at Harvard University.
Shmuel Shapiro (Hebrew: שמואל שפירו, a French Jewish rabbi, hazzan, singer, composer, lecturer, and former Chief Rabbi of Meurthe-et-Moselle and Nancy, France, was born in Aix-les-Bains, France, on 26 January 1974.
The Synagogue Edmond Safra is a synagogue at 15 Avenue de la Costa in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It is run by the Association Cultuelle Israelite de Monaco (ACIM).
Eli J. Mansour is a rabbi at Edmond J. Safra Synagogue in Brooklyn.
The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, under construction, located at 2085 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, in New York City, New York, United States. The synagogue is one of several that are eponymous with Edmond J. Safra, a former banker and philanthropist, partially or fully funded by the Edmond J. Safra Foundation.
Elie Abadie is Senior Rabbi in the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities and Senior Rabbi in Residence of the Jewish Council of the Emirates (JCE). He is the former Director of the Jacob E. Safra Institute of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University, with an area of interest on the topics of Sephardic Judaism, history, philosophy, and comparative traditional law. He is a member of the board of the American Sephardi Federation and the World Sephardic Educational Center, and co-president of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries. He is a former member of the Board and an Officer of the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), the Treasurer/Vice-president of the New York Board of Rabbis, and co-chair of the Sadat Congressional Gold Medal Committee.
The European Jewish Center is a Jewish cultural center and synagogue located at place de Jérusalem, in the XVIIe arrondissement of Paris, France. The project was conceived by Joël Mergui, president of the Israelite Central Consistory of France. Construction began in 2015 and the building was inaugurated on 29 October 2019 in the presence of Emmanuel Macron, the President of France.
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