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{{Short description|Social and recreational organizations for the Jewish communities of various cities}}
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{{Infobox organization
| name                     = Jewish Community Centers Association of North America
| image                    = JCC Association Logo 2014.png
| alt                      = Jewish Community Center logo
| region                   = [[North America]]
| purpose                  = JCC Association leads and connects the JCC Movement, advancing and enriching North American Jewish life. <ref name= missions>"[https://jcca.org/about-us/mission-statement/'. [[JCC Association Mission]]. Retrieved March 19, 2025.</ref>
| predecessor              = Hebrew Young Men's Literary Association,<br />Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA),<br /> Jewish Welfare Board
| leader_title             = [[President (corporation)|President]], [[Chief Executive Officer]]
| leader_name              = Jennifer Mamlet
| status                   = [[501(c)(3)]] [[nonprofit organization]]<ref name= irseos>"[https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/displayAll.do?dispatchMethod=displayAllInfo&Id=71557&ein=135599486&zipCode=&country=US&deductibility=all&dispatchMethod=searchAll&isDescending=false&city=&ein1=13-5599486&postDateFrom=&exemptTypeCode=al&submitName=&sortColumn=orgName&totalResults=1&names=&resultsPerPage=25&indexOfFirstRow=0&postDateTo=&searchChoice=&state=All+States Jewish Community Centers Assoc Of North America]. ''Tax Exempt Organization Search''. [[Internal Revenue Service]]. Retrieved June 16, 2018.</ref>
| headquarters             = 520 [[Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)|Eighth Avenue]],<br /> [[New York, NY]] 10018 [[United States of America|U.S.]]
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| subsidiaries             = The Florence G Heller JCC Association Research Center Inc <sub>[[501(c)(3)]]</sub><ref name= 990-2016>"[https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2016/135/599/2016-135599486-0e558da6-9.pdf Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax]". ''Jewish Community Centers Association of North America''. [[Guidestar]]. December 31, 2016.</ref>
| founded_date             = {{start date and age|1854}}<ref name= 100years/>
| founding_location        = [[Baltimore, Maryland]], U.S.<ref name= 100years/>
| founder                  = Dr. Aaron Friedenwald<ref name= 100years/>
| website                  = {{URL|http://www.jcca.org}}
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A '''Jewish Community Center''' or a '''Jewish Community Centre''' ('''JCC''') is a general recreational, [[social clubs|social]], and [[Fraternal and service organizations|fraternal]] organization serving the [[Jew]]ish community in a number of cities. JCCs promote Jewish culture and heritage through holiday celebrations, Israel-related programming, and other Jewish education. However, they are open to everyone in the community.

'''JCC Association of North America''' is the continental [[umbrella organization]] for the Jewish Community Center movement, which includes more than 170 JCCs, YM–YWHAs, and camp sites in the U.S. and Canada.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Herman |first=Deb |date=2025-02-06 |title=Building pluralism and community |url=https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/building-pluralism-and-community/ |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=The Jewish Standard |language=en-US}}</ref>

== History ==
The '''Hebrew Young Men's Literary Association''' was first set up in 1854 in a building at the corner of [[Fayette Street|Fayette]] and [[Gay Street (Baltimore)|Gay Street]]s in [[Baltimore, Maryland]]<ref>[http://www.jcc.org/join/history-of-the-greater-baltimore-jcc/ "History of the Greater Baltimore JCC,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150614171301/http://www.jcc.org/join/history-of-the-greater-baltimore-jcc/ |date=2015-06-14 }} Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore website. Accessed June 12, 2015,</ref> to provide support for [[Jew]]ish immigrants.<ref name = 100years>"Young Men's Hebrew Group 100 Years Old This Week". ''The Baltimore Sun''. January 8, 1954.</ref><ref>Shapiro, Marc; Katz, Justin (May 20, 2016). "Envisioning the Future". ''Baltimore Jewish Times''. Vol. 350. Issue 3. p. 54-59.</ref> Dr. Aaron Friedenwald was the group's founder and first president.<ref name= 100years/>

The first '''Young Men's Hebrew Association''' ('''YMHA''') was founded in New York City on October 10, 1874, with Lewis May as its first president.<ref name= ymha1871>"The Young Men's Hebrew Association: Formal Opening of the New Building of the Society—Addresses by Mr. Lewis May, Mr. De Cordova, and Others". ''The New York Times''. October 11, 1874. p. 7.</ref> The first official headquarters were at 112 West 21st Street in Manhattan.<ref name= ymha1871/> '''Young Women's Hebrew Association''' ('''YWHA''') was first established as an annex to the YMHA in 1888.<ref name= fitness>Jaffe, Maayan (March 26, 2015). "Fitness and JCCs: Does working out with other Jews keep you Jewish?" ''Washington Jewish Week'' (Gaithersburg, Maryland). p. 22.</ref> YWHA was founded to provide spiritual and material support for the young Jewish women who were moving to cities at the time.<ref name= frontiers>Irwin, Mary Ann (2011). "Sex, War, and Community Service: The Battle for San Francisco's Jewish Community Center". ''Frontiers''. Vol. 32. Issue 1. p. 36–70, 204.</ref> YMHA helped young Jewish women find housing and employment.<ref name= frontiers/> Fannie Liebovitz was one of the founders.<ref>Mrs. S. Liebovitz, a Welfare Leader". ''The New York Times''. April 28, 1944. p. 19.</ref> The first independent YWHA was established in 1902.<ref name= fitness/> The New York YMHA and YWHA now operate together as the [[92nd Street Y]]. (There are two other YM–YWHA organizations in Manhattan, which are not affiliated with the 92nd Street Y. They are the 14th Street Y, and the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood. The 14th Street Y, in the Gramercy/East Village neighborhood, is a branch of the [[The Educational Alliance|Educational Alliance]]. The Washington Heights organization serves a diverse community uptown.) In 1917, these organizations were combined into a [[National Jewish Welfare Board|Jewish Welfare Board]].

Following a merger of the Young Men's Hebrew Association, Young Women's Hebrew Association, and the Jewish Education Alliance, the organization was renamed Jewish Community Center (JCC) in 1951.<ref name= 100years/> Many member organizations adopted the new name, but some other member organizations did not do so, particularly in the [[New York metropolitan area]], such as:

* In [[Manhattan]], New York City, New York
** Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
** YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood
** [[92nd Street Y]], (formally, The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, New York, New York)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.92y.org/92StreetY/media/DOCUMENTS/Uptown/Misc/No_Exp/92Y-FY17-Signed-FS.PDF|title=Financial Statement 2016-2017|date=2017-11-15|website=92nd Street Y|access-date=2018-04-23}}</ref>
** 14th Street Y
* In Brooklyn, New York
** Boro Park Y in [[Borough Park, Brooklyn|Borough Park]],  (founded as YMHA)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18303209/brooklyn_ymha_buys_site/|title=Brooklyn YMHA Buys Site|date=1914-10-31|work=New York Times|access-date=2018-04-23|language=en|via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{OpenAccess}}}}</ref>
** [[Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst|Jewish Community House]], or JCH, in [[Bensonhurst, Brooklyn]]
** Kings Bay Y in [[Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn|Sheepshead Bay]], with branches in northern Brooklyn
** Shorefront Y
* Riverdale YM-YWHA in [[the Bronx]], New York City, New York
* Samuel Field Y and Central Queens Y in [[Queens|Queens, New York]] (two agencies merging {{As of|2018|lc=y}})
* In New Jersey
** Center for Jewish Life (CJL) in [[East Brunswick, New Jersey|East Brunswick]], successor to YM-YWHA of Raritan Valley in [[Highland Park, New Jersey|Highland Park]] (closed 2006)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://njjewishnews.com/article/1363/charter-school-meets-with-prospective-families|title=Charter school meets with prospective families|website=New Jersey Jewish News {{!}} NJJN|access-date=2018-04-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://njjewishnews.com/njjn.com/030608/sxRenamedY2Develop.html|title=Renamed Y to develop new East Brunswick site {{!}} New Jersey Jewish News|website=njjewishnews.com|access-date=2018-04-23}}</ref>
** YM-YWHA of Clifton/Passaic (name retained until its closing in 2011)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/clifton-passaic-jewish-institutions-undergoing-massive-changes/|title=Clifton Passaic Jewish institutions undergoing massive changes|work=Jewish Standard|access-date=2018-04-23|language=en-US}}</ref>
** YM-YWHA of North Jersey in [[Wayne, New Jersey|Wayne]] (name retained until sale to Metro YMCA in 2011)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/wayne/ym-ywha-joins-forces-with-the-metro-ymca-of-the-oranges|title=YM-YWHA Joins Forces with the Metro YMCA of the Oranges|date=2011-07-11|work=Wayne, NJ Patch|access-date=2018-04-23|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Jewish Community Alliance of Jacksonville, Florida

An example of the objectives of Jewish Community Centers can be seen within the New Bedford, Massachusetts branch's Constitution. In January 1947, the Jewish Community Center of New Bedford listed the following objectives:

* To foster and develop the highest values of Jewish spiritual and cultural life.
* To provide social, educational, literary, benevolent, recreational and athletic activities for the benefit of Jewish men, women, and children of New Bedford.
* To serve the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of its members.
* To fulfill the great ideals of American citizenship.<ref>Jewish Community Center Records, 1944–1977. [Manuscript Collection]. (MC 21). Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA.</ref>

==Services==
[[Image:WinnipegYMHA.jpg|right|thumb|The indoor pool at the Rady Jewish Community Centre in [[Winnipeg, Manitoba]]]]
JCC Association offers a wide range of services and resources to help its affiliates to provide educational, cultural, social, Jewish identity-building, and recreational programs for people of all ages and backgrounds. JCC Association<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jcca.org|title=Home - JCC Association|access-date=4 March 2017}}</ref> supports the largest network of Jewish early childhood centers and Jewish summer camps in North America and is also a U.S. government accredited agency for serving the religious and social needs of Jewish military personnel through JWB Jewish Chaplains Council.<ref>[http://www.jcca.org/JWB/index.html Torahs for Our Troops] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828195706/http://www.jcca.org/JWB/index.html |date=2008-08-28 }}</ref>

Some JCCs provide services for people with disabilities, such as [[autism spectrum]] disorders and [[learning disability|learning disabilities]].  In 2008, The Mandel JCC of [[Cleveland]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clevejcc.org|title=Beachwood Mandel JCC|access-date=4 March 2017}}</ref> was awarded $652,500 in grant funding to be used for individuals with disabilities.  Cleveland-area children and adults with emotional, physical and developmental disabilities now have many opportunities to get involved in fitness, wellness and recreational activities. Whenever possible, activities are inclusive and children are able to fully participate, usually with the assistance of an aide.

As a rule, today JCCs are open to other ethnic groups as well, with a possible exception of strictly traditional Jewish activities. In fact, many JCCs sponsor local events. There are, however, many other activities that anyone can host at the JCC.

==Locations==
[[File:Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center.JPG|thumb|The [[Washington, D.C. Jewish Community Center]] (DCJCC) is located in the [[Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.|Dupont Circle]] neighborhood. President [[Calvin Coolidge]] spoke at the original ground-breaking ceremony on May 3, 1925. The Center closed in 1968, following [[1968 Washington, D.C. riots|race riots in Washington, D.C.]], later reopening in 1997.]]

There are over 170 JCCs across North America in 43 US states and Canadian provinces. The states with the most JCCs include New York with 37, California with nearly 20, and 13 in Florida and New Jersey.<ref>{{Cite web |title=JCCs of North America |url=https://jcca.org/jccs/?utm_source=jcca_website_header&utm_medium=button&utm_campaign=find_a_jcc |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=JCC Association of North America |language=en-US}}</ref> Almost all of the largest metropolitan areas in the U.S. now have at least one JCC, and many smaller communities also have locations. JCCs all over the country provide a wide range of social, cultural, and educational services, ranging from lectures, concerts, theater performances, and dance recitals to health and fitness classes, job training workshops, and citizenship classes.

[[File:Hartford YWHA, gymnasium class, 1922-1923, Burr School gym (4351404667).jpg|thumb|Hartford YWHA, gymnasium class, 1922–1923, Burr School gym]]

Their programs and activities vary by location. Particularly noteworthy is the JCC in [[West Bloomfield, Michigan]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jccdet.org|title=JCC of Metro Detroit|access-date=4 March 2017}}</ref> which is the largest JCC in North America, and possibly the world. The [[Holocaust Memorial Center]], which attracts many visitors to its programs and exhibits, used to be a part of the JCC of West Bloomfield, but recently opened a building of its own.  The West Bloomfield JCC houses two gymnasiums which can be made into three gyms using a movable wall, a workout area, an indoor full size and kiddie pool, an outdoor full size pool, a kosher restaurant, a Michigan Jewish war veterans museum, an in line hockey center, a library, ceramics/art rooms, a large multi-purpose room (Handleman Hall), an art museum, an area dedicated to teaching and learning about tzedakah (charity) called Shalom Street, a performing arts theater in the basement, a preschool, offices for summer camps, the previously mentioned preschool, and other administrative offices and organizations.  The top floor is completely dedicated to [[The Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frankelja.org/|title=Frankel Jewish Academy -|access-date=4 March 2017}}</ref> a Jewish High School which opened in 2000.  The JCC building is on the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus along with multiple living quarters for the elderly and mentally disabled and an Alzheimer's treatment building.

[[Image:JCCPool.jpg|thumb|The main swimming pool at the Jewish Community Center in [[Owings Mills, Maryland]]]]

A significant addition to the family of JCCs in North America is the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mmjccm.org|title=Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan|access-date=24 December 2020}}</ref> This eleven-story building situated in Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood opened its doors in the winter of 2002. The JCC offers a diversity of programs, from parenting to fitness and wellness, and each year the organization produces four week-long film festivals, an all-night Tikkun Leil Shavuot, a New Year's Day fitness fair, and an annual Symposium on Positive Aging. The JCC features multiple centers dedicated to segments of its community, including the Jack and Shirley Silver Center for Special Needs, the Bert and Sandra Wasserman Center for Family Life, the Selma and Lawrence Ruben Center for 20s + 30s, and the new Wechsler Center for Modern Aging, for those aged 60+.

[[File:JCC of Staten Island Solar Panels.jpg|thumb|left|JCC of Staten Island solar panels]]

Solar thermal panels were installed at the Joan and Alan Bernikow JCC in Staten Island 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Solar energy initiative at Staten Island JCC|date=23 November 2011|url=http://www.silive.com/westshore/index.ssf/2011/11/solar_energy_initiative_at_sta.html|publisher=SILIVE}}</ref>

[[File:WSTM Team Boerum 0053.jpg|thumb|Marlene Meyerson JCC [[Manhattan]]]]

==Incidents and security==
In recent decades, several incidents that have taken place at JCCs and other Jewish-related locations across the United States and Canada, as well as the [[September 11 attacks]], have prompted JCCs in all areas to increase security at their facilities. Some of these events have included:

* As part of the [[1950s synagogue bombings]], the JCCs in Nashville, Tennessee, and Jacksonville, Florida, were bombed in 1958 by [[white supremacists]] opposed to [[Jews in the civil rights movement|Jewish support for integration]] in the southern United States. No one was hurt in the bombings.<ref name="Yearbook59">{{cite journal |last1=Kellman |first1=George |title=Anti-Jewish agitation |journal=The American Jewish Year Book |date=1959 |volume=60 |pages=44–52 |jstor=23602919 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23602919 |access-date=8 January 2024}}</ref>
* The [[1994 AMIA bombing]] in Buenos Aires resulted in 85 deaths and over 300 injured persons.
* In 1997, a woman in [[Toronto]] was charged with kidnapping and other crimes in the unauthorized removal of her 5-year-old daughter from a JCC childcare center. The woman, a [[registered nurse]] who had previously lost [[Child custody|custody]] of her child following a divorce, led police on a high-speed chase and crashed, causing minor injuries to both.
* In the [[Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting]] on August 10, 1999, a [[white supremacist]] opened fire and wounded four children and one adult, who all <ref>{{cite news |title=Shooting suspect returned to L.A. to face charges |url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/12/california.shooting.01/index.html |date=12 August 1999 |work=CNN |access-date=4 March 2017}}</ref> survived. The shooter was later convicted of homicide in a separate incident.
* In the [[Seattle Jewish Federation shooting]] on July 29, 2006, one person was killed when a [[Islam in the United States|Muslim]] man named Naveed Afzal Haq opened fire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14082298|title=Police: Seattle shooting suspect ambushed teen|website=[[NBC News]]|date=30 July 2006|access-date=4 March 2017}}</ref> This shooting was in response to the offender's anger at the United States for the [[Iraq War]] and its support for Israel.
* In the [[Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting]] on April 13, 2014, a white supremacist opened fire in the parking lot of the JCC of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park, Kansas, and at a nearby Jewish retirement home. Three were killed in the incident and two others were shot at but were unharmed.
* Starting in 2017, [[2017 Jewish Community Center bomb threats|over 100 JCCs received bomb threats]], along with other Jewish buildings such as schools. By March, two suspects were arrested: [[Juan M. Thompson]], an African-American former journalist who was attempting to frame his ex-girlfriend for making antisemitic threats; and Michael Ron David Kadar,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-46300312 |title=US-Israeli bomb hoaxer given 10 year jail sentence - BBC News |work=BBC News |date=22 November 2018 |access-date=2017-03-03}}</ref><ref name="jpost.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Dual-US-Israeli-citizen-behind-most-JCC-bomb-threat-calls-484990|title = 'Dual US-Israeli citizen behind most JCC bomb threat calls'}}</ref> a mentally ill 18-year-old [[Israeli-American]] man.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39157934 |title=Man held over US Jewish centre threats - BBC News |work=BBC News |date=3 March 2017 |access-date=2017-03-03}}</ref><ref name="jpost.com"/> who in April 2017 was charged in an Israeli court with several crimes including an attempt to extort a United States senator, "publishing false reports causing public panic, conspiring to commit a crime, hacking computers to commit a crime, and violations of money-laundering laws". The indictment alleged that he threatened "2,000 different institutions around the world, including the Israeli embassy in Washington, the Israeli consulate in Miami, schools, malls, police stations, hospitals and airlines." In the same month he faced a similar indictment in a Florida court which included 28 crimes.<ref>[http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.785333 "JCC Bomb Hoaxer Indicted in Israel; Charged With Threatening to Kill Ex-Pentagon Official's Kids"], Haaretz, April 24, 2017</ref>

==Notable members==
* [[Tal Brody]] (born 1943), was drafted #12 in the [[NBA]] draft but opted to play for Israel, began playing basketball at the [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]] JCC.<ref name="algemeiner1">{{cite news|url=http://www.algemeiner.com/2011/03/23/one-on-one-with-tal-brody/ |title=One on One with Tal Brody |work=Algemeiner |date=March 23, 2011 |author= Levi Epstein|access-date=April 1, 2011}}</ref><ref name="google4">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yw-DAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Tal+Brody%22|title=Great Jews in Sports |author= Robert Slater|publisher= J. David Publishers|year=2000 |isbn=9780824604332 |access-date=March 30, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Jake Cohen]] (born 1990), plays basketball for [[Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.|Maccabi Tel Aviv]], played for the Philadelphia JCC team which won a gold medal at the 2007 JCC [[Maccabi Games]]. He scored 33 points in the finals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jewishexponent.com/2013/03/22/local-forward-sees-hopes-dashed-in-davidson-defeat/|title=Local Forward Sees Hopes Dashed in Davidson Defeat|first=Eric|last=Berger|date=22 March 2013|access-date=4 March 2017}}</ref>
* [[Ross Friedman (soccer)|Ross Friedman]] (born 1992), [[Major League Soccer]] player
* [[Cullen Jones]], Olympic gold medalist in swimming, was a childhood member of Metro Express, a swim team at the JCC MetroWest in West Orange, NJ.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mallozzi|first=Vincent|title=U.S. Swimmer Hopes to Inspire|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/sports/olympics/03Rolympic.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=3 August 2008 }}</ref>
* [[Sandy Koufax]] (born 1935), [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] pitcher, played basketball at the [[Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst]] as a teenager.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sandomir|first1=Richard|title=Koufax's Roundball Once Trumped His Fastball|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/sports/basketball/before-baseball-left-brooklyn-sandy-koufax-left-basketball.html|website=New York Times|date=14 August 2012|access-date=24 August 2014}}</ref>
* [[Ingrid Michaelson]] (born 1979), indie-pop singer-songwriter. Student of the JCC of Staten Island's Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sijcc.org |title=Joan & Alan Bernikow |publisher=JCC of Staten Island |date= |access-date=2022-04-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dorothydelsonkuhnmusicinstitute.sijcc.org/ |title=- Dorothy Delson Kuhn Music Institute at the JCC of Staten Island &#124; Music Lessons &#124; Music Instruction &#124; Music Classes &#124; Private Music Lessons &#124; Jewish Community Center |website=www.dorothydelsonkuhnmusicinstitute.sijcc.org |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610073452/http://www.dorothydelsonkuhnmusicinstitute.sijcc.org/ |archive-date=10 June 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> 
* [[Bruno Sammartino]], former two-time WWF (now [[WWE]]) champion. It was at a YMHA in Pittsburgh that he discovered weightlifting.
* [[Daniel Steres]] (born 1990), professional soccer player with the [[LA Galaxy]], was a three-time JCC [[Maccabi (sports)|Maccabi]] Championship Team member.<ref name="autox">{{cite web|url=https://www.lagalaxy.com/post/2019/12/12/la-galaxy-re-sign-defender-daniel-steres|title=LA Galaxy re-sign defender Daniel Steres &#124; LA Galaxy}}</ref>
* [[Ruth Westheimer]] (1928-2024), the sex therapist and talk-show host, served as the president of the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights & Inwood in New York City.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brozan|first1=Nadine|title=Chronicle|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/23/style/chronicle-983793.html|website=New York Times|date=23 June 1992|access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>
* [[Jerry Stiller]] (1927-2020), American comedian and actor, was a member of JCC Manhattan<ref>{{Cite web |last=Levitan |first=Susan Sagan |title=To NYC and back: A native returns, kicking and screaming |url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/rochester-magazine/mind-body-soul/2015/05/25/new-york-city-moving-home-adjust-change-big-city-small-town/27799197/ |access-date=2025-03-19 |website=Democrat and Chronicle |language=en-US}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Jewish Center (disambiguation)]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.jcca.org/ JCC Association of North America]

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