The National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) or Young Israel (in Hebrew: Yisrael Hatza'ir, ישראל הצעיר), is a synagogue-based Orthodox Judaism organization in the United States with a network of affiliated "Young Israel" synagogues. NCYI was founded in 1912 by rabbis Israel Friedlander and Mordecai Kaplan to combat the wave of assimilation by Jews into secular American society. Today it is a national coordinating agency for nearly 150 Orthodox congregations of nearly 25,000 member families throughout the United States and Canada.
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