TrentonJewishHS: Brothers of Israel (Acheinu B’nai Yisroel) Est. 1883

Brothers of Israel (Acheinu B’nai Yisroel - Orthodox) -1883

Arthur L. Finkle

Original Building on Union St.

One of the first, if not the first Eastern Jew in Trenton was Samuel Meyer Stark. Born in Lithuania in 1841, he lived in Glasgow, Scotland where he learned to speak English. He came to Trenton in 1876 in a steerage voyage of 52 days. At first settling in New York City, he, by 1878, made his home in Trenton where he could get his hands on pottery to sell in various markets. He also sold second hand clothes of the Princeton University students to markets in New York. In Trenton, he served as a tutor of nine German Jewish families and acted as the first Sheliach Tzibur (Cantor) at what became the first Eastern Jewish Orthodox congregation. He passed away in 1887.

The second oldest religious body (after the German Congregation, Har Sinai) in the life of Trenton Jewry is the Congregation of the Brothers of Israel.

According to several of the early members of the congregation, they held services in their homes before the group became a permanent organization. In view of conflicting data, it is difficult to pin-point exact dates. According to John Merzbacher's book entitled "Trenton's Foreign Colonies" the congregation was founded on May 14, 1886 by Isaac Levy. This information agrees with the year given on the stone and it represents one version of the beginning of the Brothers of Israel Congregation. A historical sketch of the congregation written by Gabriel Lavinson, an early member, informs us that the beginning was in 1883.

Since Mr. Levy arrived in the United States from Scotland in 1887 Mr. Lavinson’s story is probably the more accurate.

This organization, exclusively established by Polish and Russian Jews, incorporated in 1883, but synagogue itself did not established until four years later. Isaac Levy, a Jewish Scot by way of Lithuania became President for 10 years in the 1890’s.

Its founding members were: Israel Berman, Hyman Lavine, Abraham Goodstein, Solomon Goodstein, Isaac Goodstein, Nathan Tobish, Jacob Hamikelsky, Abraham Bernstein, Nathan Siegel, David Davine, Wolf Fineberg, Reuben Kahn, Harris Adolphus, Harris Greenberg, Henry Goldstein, and Louis Latzkowitz.

At a meeting on May 23, 1883, the following trustees were elected: Louis Levin, Louis Latzkowitz, Abraham Berstein, Abraham Goodstein, David Levin, Jacob Wamilkelsky Jabob (or Israel) Berman.

Mr Lavinson's narrative indicated that the first regular meeting place of the newly formed organization was in a small hall in the Hearnen Building at the southwest corner of South Warren and Front Streets. The Hearnen Building served as the site for services for about one year and a half whereupon the congregation moved to a hall in the Washington Market Building, staying for two and a half years.

The synagogue building, like many of its counterparts, began by refurbishing a Church in 1887. The board of directors purchased this former 1851 Methodist Episcopal Church for $3,000. According to the August issue of the "True American," the deed was did not transmit until September 1887). Contractor properly transformed and renovated the house of worship. On the afternoon of Sept 11, 1887, the members dedicated the synagogue. The Rev, Morgan Read, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal congregation formally delivered the house of worship to its new owner.

Cemetery shared with Har Sinai - LibertySt. and Grand Ave

The new congregation celebrated religious ceremonies, accompanied by a choir. Thereafter, congregants delivered The Torah, a most solemn part of the ceremonies," reported the "True American."

The converted church served its purpose well until 1900 when the Congregation decided to build a new building to accommodate its burgeoning congregation of new Russian immigrants.

On Thursday afternoon on July 26 1900, the congregants cast the cornerstone of the new synagogue before 550 persons. Isaac Levy, president of the congregation, and Harry Haveson, chairman of the Building Fund committee, placed items in the cornerstone: a city directory, copies of all newspapers in Mercer County, a picture of the old synagogue, a listing of members of the congregation, a 240 year old publication of the Psalms of David, the dedication program, a Grand Army of the Republic button as well as the flags of the US and Zion.

The synagogue conducted its first services on September 23, 1900. The "True American" reported that the congregation celebrated the Jewish New Year services the next day.

Despite the building’s lacking a full complement of seats, windows and other accessories, Rabbi Drucker conducted services. Short speeches by G. Silverman and President Levy appropriate to the dedication of the new building and New Year's Day concluded the services.

Lavinson's recollections as the correct version of origin. He listed 16 founding members: Israel Berman, Hyman Lavine, Abraham Goodstein, Solomon Goodstein, Isaac Goodstein, Nathan Tobish, Jacob Hamikelsky, Abraham Bernstein, Nathan Siegel, David Davine, Wolf Fineberg, Reuben Kahn, Harris Adolphus, Harris Greenberg, Henry Goldstein, and Louis Latzkowitz.

Trenton historican, Harry Podmore, indicates that Brothers of Israel’s first Trustees were: Louis Levin, Louis Katz, , Louis Lefkowitz, Abraham Bennestein, Abraham Goldstein, Jacob Hankelsky and Mr. Isaac Berman.

In 1885 the congregation established a place of burial on Vroom Street, adjoining Har Sinai Cemetery. In 1907, the Director expanded the synagogue by the purchasing of an additional lot. In 1908 it served more than 1,200 families. And in 1913, an auxiliary cemetery was established near Cedar Lane, Hamilton Township. Its spiritual leader Rabbi Pinchus Turman, trained in Vilna, Lithuania, cCame from Ivenez, Province of Minsk, Russia.

He had various religos responsibioitites in the Province of Vilna. Shortly after his arrival in Trenton, the congregation elected him as Rabbi of the Brothers of Israel Synagogue. So pleased with him is his congregation that a few months ago he was re-elected for another term of three years. He lived at 209 Fall Street in a modest home. His children attended American public schools.

The early officers of the Brothers of Israel congregation are: Hyman Silverman, president; Havis Olinsky, vice-president; Morris Iskovitz, secretary, and F. Lavinson, treasurer.

LIBRARY. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation PRESS OF BEERS & FREY, TRENTON, N. J., Copyright, 1908, by John Merzbacher,

Archived. Org/stream/trentonsforeigncolonies/. Accessed January 2,m 2013

In 1913, as the immigrants continued to pour into South Trenton necessitated the congregation to purchase a larger cemetery on Cedar lane.

Isaac Levy, President of Brothers of Israel for ten years was also President of the new congregation, Anshei Emes. His obituary is below:

ISAAC, LEVY

One of the Most

Prominent Residents of South Trenton Died

Saturday: '' July 28, 1909 Trenton Times – Advertiser

•

SKETCH OF HIS • Life

The funeral service of Isaac Levy of 304 union street, one of the oldest find *most prominent members -of the Jewish race in South Trenton, who died Saturday, following a lingering illness of -over a year) yesterday afternoon from his late residence at 4 o'clock; Services- according to the Jewish rite by the -Rev. Hersh Elitzer, of the Synagogue of the Israelites Brotherhood.

Gathered around the coffin were the immediate members or the family, while a lair number of relatives, friends and many who were befriended in life, filled the house and the sidewalk in the vicinity.

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Mr. Levy was one of the earliest Hebrews to ,settle in South Trenton, where 'he has remained all his life, and from e first day his chief mission was to aid -his countrymen. Being a contractor, the deceased was the promoter of the building of the present- beautiful synagogue of the Israelites' 'Brotherhood, of which he was a member, and the first and only free Hebrew school in Trenton.

He aimed unceasingly at Jewish progress and to this end gave much time and money. His work with the members" of the congregation was met with their heartiest approval, and several medals were presented to him as a taken of their appreciation.

His labors did not cease even when the dread disease that removed him from life, first compelled him to retire from business. During the past nine months Mr. Levy organized and financed a project to help the poorer classes of his own people, a scheme which already, though its infancy, is doing great good among the Jews.

Mr. Levy was in his 70th year, and during his life has reared a family" of five children, who today show the fruits of their admirable training. They are Mary and Rachel, Abram, Bernard and Charles.

He was prominent in Jewish Masonic circles, and also was president of the People of Troth Society, a Jewish organization, whose members attended the funeral in a body.

Services at the grave consisted of eulogies delivered by a number of friends who knew him, honored him in life, and wished to pay fitting tribute to his memory before he was taken from their view. Interment was made in the Mount Sinai Cemetery, under the direction of Poulson and Coleman.

Interestingly, the rabbi engaged at Anshei Emes shared his time with Congregation Brothers of Israel. The Shamas (whose responsibilities were those other than the Rabbi and Chazzan) was Dov Baer. Rabbi Issachar Levin was Rabbi for most of its years in its home on Union Street.

We know that the shul, Anshei Emes, opened in 1901. We might not know is that there was great cooperation with Brothers of Israel. Together, they shared the Rabbi, the Rabbi’s home and the kosher slaughterhouse.

Acheinu B’nai Yisroel witnessed the beginning the new Jewish Russian immigrants streaming to Trenton during the Great Immigration of 1881-1914. The original member names are replicated as new synagogues opened: The Congregations of the People of Truth (1891), the Workers of Truth (1919), Ahavath Israel (1909), and Adath Israel (1923).

President Isaac Levy established the first Talmud Torah and Sunday School on 49 Union Street, across the street from the synagogue structure, as an adjunct of Brothers of Israel congregation. The school was in session from 4:00 p.m. to 8 p.m. on week-days and from 10 to 12 a.m. on Sundays.

In 1907, the school became independent, changing its name to Dr. Theodor Herzl's Zion Hebrew School, an Austrian news reporter and the leader of the Wrold Zionsit Organization. The new Dr. Herzl's Zion Hebrew School stood Cooper and Market Streets. Under the leadership of Rabbi Isaac Bunin, the institution thrived as a community institution, supported by the entire Jewish community.

Under the leadership of Rabbis Bunin and Korwitz, Issachar Levin, the synagogue continued on Union Street for many years. In 1926, the synagogue sponsored another Hebrew School. Its curriculum included the Hebrew language, Jewish traditions and precepts. The outstanding figure in the movement for this school was

Among those active in the religious life of ‘Brothers’ were: the Rev. P. Turman, the Rev. Mr. Prail, the Rev. Max Gordon, Rev. Hersh Elitzer Max Sufnuss, the Rev. Meyer Rabinowitz, the Rev. Israel Price, Rabbi Isaac Bunin, the Rev. Joseph Konvitz, and David Lavine.

Hyman Levy (Levie), first president of the congregation of the Brothers of Israel, Isaac Levy (Levie), who was one of the founders of the Talmud Torah, and Rabbi Issachar Levin. (A History of Trenton 1619-1929, by Harry J. Podmore, Trenton Historical Society, 1929)

During its Orthodox iteration, Rabbis Bacharach, Pincus Turman, Eleazer M. Prail, Rabbi Isaac Bunin, Joseph Konovitz and Issacher Levin served the congregation.

In 1947, the bulk of the Jewish population moved out of South Trenton. In 1947, both Congregations Brothers of Israel and Anshei Emes, the two large Orthodox synagogues explored relocating in 1947.

SUNDAY, TIMES ADVERTISER FEBRUARY 23, 11947

Platt Campaign

2 Synagogues

To Be United

The two oldest Jewish Orthodox congregation's in Trenton, Congregation Brothers of Israel and Congregation - People of Truth, both located on Union Street, have joined in a building fund campaign to erect a new synagogue which will house both groups.

The Brothers of Israel. Syna-

gogue was organized in 1881 and

the building it now occupies was

constructed in 1900. The People

of Truth Synagogue., organized in

!I 1886, has occupied its present site

since 1904.

Mendel Deitz is president of the / Brothers of Israel and Israel Citron is head of the People of Truth. Plans are being completed for the new edifice although the new site has not been selected.

Israel Citron will launch

The building campaign will be launched at a dinner March 16 at 6 p. m. in the veterans' room of the War Memorial Building. The program includes a nationally-known speaker, soloists and music.

The joint building fund committee consists of 25 members of each congregation, with Dr. H. E. Mosovich and David Kushner as ce-chairmen. The committee in charge of the dinner includes Isaac Bulitsky, Samuel Bensky, Maurice Finkle, Nathan Leventhal, Samuel Mosovich, Max EAzert, Israel Citron, Sidney Kaplan, David L. Kelsey and Alex Rosenthal.

In 1955, the Board of Directors decided to change locations. It purchased land on Greenwood Avenue. On May 22, 1955, groundbreaking began a significant chapter for the new synagogue, officially located at 499 Greenwood Avenue.

With this move came a change from Orthodox to Conservative Judaism. Within a year both a Sisterhood and Men's Club were formally formed. Rabbi Gerard Lerer became the first spiritual leader of Brothers on Greenwood Avenue. Dedicated on May 19, 1957. Acheinu B’nai Yisroel changed to its loose English translation, Congregation Brothers of Israel.

By 1955, and Gerald Lerer became the Spiritual Leader. Then, in 1970, the synagogue opened its branch Hebrew School in Lawrenceville, NJ, and within two years, a second school was in Yardley, PA.

In 1974 a new building the congregation expanded and refurbished the sanctuary, auditorium and classrooms. The congregation dedicated its new building in 1976.

In 1961, Rabbi Howard Hersch presided for the next 48 years. The Greenwood Avenue synagogue housed many life cycle events. Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, baby namings, weddings, farewells, significant personal events and social gatherings. Due to the synagogue's location near the Train station, the congregation came to the attention of prospective members for the greater Mercer County Region and beyond. Members joined the congregation from Bucks County, PA in greater numbers, including former New Jerseyans relocating to PA.

He also oversaw many changes Hersch noted that, in 1961, many things remained from the congregation's Orthodox past: Women weren't allowed to read from the Torah or receive aliyahs. He explained that things changed gradually, and that, by the mid-1970s, the synagogue was much more egalitarian in its practices.

The Trent Center

In the mid-1960's, newly arrived Rabbi Howard Hersch utilized federal funds to stimulate senior housing on the Brothers of Israel campus on Greenwood Avenue. When the buildings opened, many parents and relatives of our members resided in those buildings, a very short walk to the synagogue for prayer services and other activities.

The Trent Center, an age restricted community, was one of its kind when Brothers of Israel created it. The Board of Trustees located its site next to the shul at 511 Greenwood Ave.

East -511 With apartments for Trent Center East is a HUD Section 202 Program Building, with 195 partially-subsidized senior living apartments and 34 assisted living apartments. , the Trenton Center was the brain-child of Alvin Gershon, a city planner and developer. He secured money from the federal government that subsidized this type of construction and he performed the difficult task of scheduling the money underwriting for the enterprise. It also built another building Trent Center West - 465 Greenwood Avenue- a Section 236 building with 246 apartments.

Today, Trent Center East and Trent Center West and Project Freedom, a residence for handicapped adults, continue to serve the community. The buildings, modernized and energy-efficient, include 474 efficiency, one and two bedroom apartments, and 34 new assisted living suites. Project Freedom is a four year old partnership building with 52 apartments specifically designed to accommodate persons with physical disabilities.

A well-managed senior living community, the Trent Center provides a full-service senior living community with experienced staff.

Dedicated staff, committed volunteers, government aided programs and extended community resources are the hallmarks of Trent Center’s Senior Living Community.

Onsite facilitates include a bank, library, beauty salon and convenience store.

Seniors eligible from Mercer, Burlington and Hunterdon Counties, NJ and Bucks County, PA partake in a seniors’ independent lifestyle: With the help of extended home care from local agencies, government grants and a host of professional volunteers residents to maintain their active lifestyle. Personalized assistance with daily activities, regular safety checks, timely medical interventions, numerous recreational, educational and religious programs help us prevent premature and unnecessary institutionalization.

Significant services meld Assisted Living; Congregate Housing (housekeeping services, meals, personal assistance and case management) Services Program (CHSP): In-house transportation; a Social Service Coordinator; and access to extended local services.

Trent Center won numerous awards in recognition of innovative and quality service: After 40 years of dedicated service to our senior living community: The New Jersey Housing Award for Excellence for 16 years in a row; the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Innovative Social Services Award and the Governor's Housing Award for Innovative Social Service Programming.

Changing demographics led to another move to Newtown, PA on February 14, 2007. The board of Directors converted the former Assembly of God Church for Jewish use in 2007. Though the building is smaller than Greenwood Avenue, this location places the congregation squarely within the growing Jewish population of Bucks County, and within easy commute from Mercer County. The location has an idyllic 3.42 acre parcel. In 2008, the congregation bought an adjacent 4.34 parcel with a house (for the Rabbi and family), bringing the total acreage to 7.76 acres. Also in 2008, the congregation constructed a modular classroom building to enlarge the educational facility and enhance the congregational space.

In 2009, after 48 years as spiritual leader, Rabbi Howard Hersch retired from the pulpit of Congregation Brothers of Israel. Rabbi Shalom Plotkin presided over the pulpit until June 2012. And in July 2012, the congregation welcomed Rabbi Aaron Philmus.

PAST PRESIDENTS from 1955 were:

Eller Russ

Vic Giuffre
Fred Young

Isadore Silverstein

Esmond Druker

George Weiner

Sylvia Geser

Steve Corwin

Frederick Edelman

Sylvia Geser

Steven Cohen

Joan Brand Hirsch

George Wendofff

Mark Nemiroff

William Borghard

Madeline Strum

Philip Becker

Craig Deutsch

Andrea Kornblum

Scott Gilinsky

Stephen J. Minsky

We find names associated with Congregation Brothers of Israel through the many years in the Yahrzeit listing:

http://www.archive.org/stream/trentonsforeigncOOmerz/trentonsforeigncOOmerz djvu.txt

"It's a double-edged sword," said congregation membership chair Jeff Leventhal of Langhorne, Pa. "It's hard, but it's the right thing for the congregation. It's an excellent move."

Brothers of Israel members begin their goodbyes to Trenton building

by Marilyn Silverstein NJJN Bureau Chief/PMB 02.06.07

When Congregation Brothers of Israel closed the doors to its Greenwood Avenue synagogue earlier this week, it also closed the door to an era of Jewish community in Trenton.

Har Sinai Hebrew Congregation, until recently the only other synagogue remaining in Trenton, is already in interim quarters in Pennington as work proceeds on its new facility just off Route 31 in Hopewell Township.

During its final days in Trenton, on Jan. 26 and 27, Brothers of Israel celebrated with commemorative Shabbat" services — honoring past and present leaders and marking the end of its 51-year-history in the modest shul on Greenwood Avenue, even as members looked forward to writing a new history in their new home on Washington Crossing Road in Newtown, Pa.

The Greenwood Avenue shul will be converted into a senior health-care center in association with the Trent Center senior housing facilities on the Greenwood Avenue campus.

On one of Brothers of Israel's last Sunday mornings in Trenton, a small group of members davened the morning prayers together as sunlight streamed through the stained glass windows of the old sanctuary. Afterward, several members of the 230-family Conservative congregation gathered to express their feelings about the transition.

"It's bittersweet," said Andrea Kornblum of Yardley, Pa., a past congregational president who is coordinating the transition committee. "I've been here 22 years, and it's an extended home for me. But knowing my synagogue family is coming with me — it'll be wonderful. A synagogue is made up of the people, not the building."

Barbara Wishnow of Yardley, a congregation vice president, said she could feel the warmth of the Greenwood Avenue synagogue from the moment she first walked through the doors as a youngster 50 years ago. "It's a warm, wonderful, extended family," she said, "and that family is moving to another location."

Those bittersweet feelings echoed again and again in the members' comments.

And that's not all.

Brothers of Israel also recently purchased an adjacent eight-acre, $630,000 property for the purposes of expanding the building at a later date.

"At some point, we need to put in a social hall. And we can't hold High Holiday services in the building yet, because there's not enough space," said Giuffre. "It's just a question of trying to make it better. This is my religious home."

But such construction remains in the future; the congregation hasn't yet begun a capital campaign or commissioned any architectural plans.

The synagogue's history began in Trenton back on June 2, 1883, when a small group of Eastern European immigrants -- all men -- signed the charter of Hachaino B'nai Israelites, which became one of the first Orthodox synagogues in the Garden State's capital. Four years later, the congregation purchased a building on Union Street, and while that structure would be razed and replaced by a new synagogue in 1900, the site would remain the congregation's home until 1955, when it would move once again.

The mid-1950s is when many things began to change. First, the synagogue underwent a transition from Orthodox to Conservative, a move that prompted the rabbi at the time to resign in protest. Then came the groundbreaking for a new building on Greenwood Avenue, followed by the adoption of the new name, Congregation Brothers of Israel, a loose English translation of the earlier nomenclature.

In 1961, Howard Hersch became the rabbi. He's still there, a whopping 47 years later.

Hersch noted that, in 1961, many things remained from the congregation's Orthodox past: Women weren't allowed to read from the Torah or receive aliyahs. He explained that things changed gradually, and that, by the mid-1970s, the synagogue was much more egalitarian in its practices.

In the late 1960s -- when membership was at its height numerically -- the synagogue received a federal grant to establish the Trent Center, a senior residential complex. At the time, it was inhabited largely by Jews, but that's no longer the case. Even though the congregation has left Trenton, a synagogue committee still oversees that complex.

Hersch noted that the exodus from the Trenton area was a decades-long demographic shift among Jews from urban locales to suburban ones, and that the synagogue had been considering a move for quite some time before it initiated its plans.

"In Judaism, you have to adapt, otherwise you can't survive. The lesson for our people is also the lesson for our synagogue," said the 70-year-old. "This anniversary has great significance. We have a past, and that past enables us to build our future."

Synagogue vice president Barbara Wishnow, who joined the synagogue in 1972 and who lives in Lower Makefield Township in Bucks County, said that the move has ensured that the shul will remain vibrant in years to come: "It's a family in the true sense of the word. Everyone feels like mispachah. I know that sounds corny, but it's true."

And that's not all.

Brothers of Israel also recently purchased an adjacent eight-acre, $630,000 property for the purposes of expanding the building at a later date.

But such construction remains in the future; the congregation hasn't yet begun a capital campaign or commissioned any architectural plans.

In 1961, Howard Hersch became the rabbi. He's still there, a whopping 47 years later.

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Berkelhammer Abraham

Sadie

Berkovitz Anne P.

Fannie

Harry

Abraham

Maurice

Berkowitz Abraham

Belle

Bessie

Jack

Max

Sarah

Sarah Rae

Samuel

Berman Arthur

Barnett

Benjamin

Israel

Leon

Mamie

Mildred

Robert

Samuel H.

Bernstein Abraham

Becky

Celia M.

David

Dora

Fannie

Fannie K.

Gustav

Jason

Joseph

Samuel

Samuel J.

Bishusky Abraham.

Fannie

Lt. Norman

Black Anna

Bletter Esther

Rubin

Bloo Blanche

Rae

Samuel

Blum Dr. Joseph M.

Bogner Alice

Joseph

Borger Ruth Goldman

Borstein, Leah

Brecher Sam

Breuer Illona

Brodie Betty

Samuel

Brodner	Benjamin Esther Rabbi Marx Samuel
Brownstein	Joseph Pearl
	Joseph Pearl

Brummel Dina

Bulitsky	Bessie Israel D.
Bulitt	Betty James Joseph

Burak Bertram J.

Caldwell Joseph

Campbell Anna

Harry

Caplan Lena

Max

Caplan Benjamin

Ida Factor

Charles

Caster Anna

Maurice

Chasin Benjamin

Rose

Cohen

A.William

Beatrice

David

Ethel

Evelyn

Fannie

Flora

Gussie T.

Israel

Louis

Marc

Martin Alan

Mary

Maurice

Michael

Morris

Rosine

Sarah

Dr. Seymour

Sylvia

Tillie

Willard

Dr. William

Cohn Haefel

Rose

Cooper Bernard

Maurice

Cutter Samuel

Danis Gitel

Dauer Gertrude

Lewis

Davids Aaron

Sadie

Davis Pauline

Deitz Mendel

Rebecca

Derin Libe

Deutscher Alfred

Annie

Diamond Samuel

Druker Conrad

Dubin Stanley

Edelman Marion

Samuel

Edwards Hyman

Minnie

Ehman Ralph

Einhorn Henry

Regina

Einziger Emanuel

Elfman Isaac

Elitzer Rev. Harris

Israel

Joseph

Nathan

William

Epstein Albert

Annie Bertha Bessie Joseph

Leon

Robert Samuel Simon Tillie

Esko Herman

Estersohn Celia

Etz Leonard

Etzcovitz David

Jean Lazarus

Factor Abraham

Bessie David Esther

Feld Ida

Max Natha

Bertha

Feldman Al

Marvin

Rose Sally

Sol

Feuerstein Harriet

Mildred Morris

Fiderer Murray

Fineberg David

Sarah

Finkle Albert

Elliott A.

Isaac

Jennie

Joseph

Leonard

Louis

Louis J.

Morris

Nathan

Rachel

Rachel K.

Sadie E.

Fishman Louis

Rose

Samuel

Gertrude

Flato Edith

Harry

Fleisher Elishe

Flesher Abraham '

Esther

Leah

Joseph

Ber

Laye

Etel

Leon

Forer Celia

Gertrude

Frank Henrietta

Miriam

Frankenberg Freda

Gustav

Herbert

Ray

Freid Sophia

Frey Gussie

William

Fried Charles

Kitty

Dr. Gloria

Friedman Alex

Harry

Hyman

Jennie

Mollie

Simon

Fromkin Bessie Caplan

Fry Pauline

Fulep Elisabeth

Joseph

Gale Rose

Gansman Florence

Garber Barnet

Bertha

Gabriel

Gerb Fanny

Kalman

German Philip

Gerofsky Capple

Joseph

Sarah

Gersowitz Benjamin

Sarah

Geser Bessye

Gladstone Jennie

Joseph

Glaser Rachel

Samuel

William

Glick Abe

Bessie

Gertrude

Gittel

Jacob

Rebecca

Sadye

Samuel

Goldberg Benjamin

Gussie

Jacob

Kate

Nathan

Rachel

Shirley

Golden Fannie

Gripman Belle

Samuel

Goldstein Anna A.

Lawrence

Minnie

Robert H.

Elizabeth

Goldston Rose

Samuel

Golluber Harry

Goodkin Augusta

Theresa

Nathan

Goodstein Abraham

Goldie

Gourovitch Yetta

Greenberg Adele

Benjamin

Sarah

William

Greenblatt Sarah

Greenfield David

Greenwald Fannie

Greenwood Helen

Morris

Gross Reba

Gurian Jean

Gurney Ada

Alfred J.

Bernard

Ima

Samuel

Habas Hannah

Handel David

Harris Abram

Edith E.

Sarah

Haveson Albert

Celia

Fay

Irving

Isaac

Jack

Robert

Samuel

Yetta

Heller

Herman

Hersch

Hershkowitz

Harry Israel Liba Rose

Dr. Emil Margaret

Morris

Pearl

Benjamin

Sarah

Himmelstein

Aaron Annie Dorothy Harry Milton Morris

Hirsch Frances Simon

Hoffman Beatrice

GoldiLeo

Horowitz Samuel

Hyman Al

MarionEngel

Ingber Lazar

Introligator Dina

Herman

Jacob

Joseph

Max

Rebecca

Sadie B

Samuel

Ipp Martin

Max Sarah

Isaacson Harry

Israel Pauline

Jacobs Benjamin

Lorraine

Joseph Bertha

Leopold

Josephson Ida

Judelson Elizabeth

Kalen Anna S.

Max

Sydney

Kallus David

Kalnitsky Sylvia

Kaminsky Gerry

Kaplan Herman

Martha Rachel Samuel

Katin Max D.

Rose

Katz Elaine

Matthew

Kauffman Dora

Kaufman Milton

Freda S.

Kelberg Eileen

Sam

Kern Frank

Freda Spector) Rebecca

Kessel Joseph

Lena Louis

Kirman David

Klein Joseph

Kleiner Gertrude

Klevansky Elizabeth

Joseph

Dr. Raymond

Kline Ida

Klinghoffer Sadie

Sol

Kobrin Abraham

Celia

Kohn David

Harry

Lillian

Lillian E.

Michael

Rose

Koslow Anna

Philip

Kosoy Katherine C.

Lee

Kravitz Aaron

Rachel

Kreely Katie

Karl

Krieger Lay

Louis

Krupnick Nathan A.

Kushensky Celia

Philip

Kushner Herman

Hilda

Isaac

Jewel A.

Maurice

Melvin

Miriam

Landsman Charles

Laskey Irving

Minnie

Morris

Yetta

Laub Max

Lavine

Ann

David

Hannah

Harry

Isaac

Karina

Morris

Samuel

Sheine

Sarah

Yetta

Lavanson Bessie

Celia

Louis

Rebecca

Simon H.

Tina

Ruth

Lavinthal Katherine

Lazaroff Gilbert

Jane

Leader Benjamin

Sadie

Leaness Ida

Leapman Ada

Leichter Martin

Rebecca

Lentz Hannah

Herman

Levenstein Haskell

Lena

Leventhal Jacob

Michly

Levie Ida Ipp

Levin Lena

Levine Barney

Becky

Esther

Fannie

Louis B.

Mamie

Philip

Reuben

Levitt Benjamin

Levy A. Aubrey

Barnit

Elizabeth

Louis

Pearl

Lidsky Anna

Hyman J.

Ida Pauline

Sarah G.

Lilienfeld Sydney M.

Lipitz Alvin

George

Mary

Litowitz Selma

Litt Nathan B.

Sophie

Loundy Max

Lubis Mary

Lutz Lynn

Lutzky Harry

Madoff Florence L.

Margulies Helen

Marshall Gussie

Henry

Joseph

Mausner Bertha

Harry

Medoff Bertha

Meyer

Meisler Harry

Mendelson Abraham

Dora

Milder Dorothy

Herman

Miller Abram

Celia

Rose

Kaple

Louis

Slova

Sylvia

Millner Albert H.

Miner Thelma

Minsky Alex

Milton

Mildred

Mosovich Esther

Frances D.

Dr. Herman E. Jacob

Mae

Samuel

Movsovich Esther

Anna

Barney

Joseph

Katie

Myers Charlotte

Nass C. William

Rebecca

Nechamkin Amy

Donna

Nemiroff Dr. Nathan

Ruth

Nemlich Louis

Sarah

Newman Bertha

Jacob Jennie

Nitzberg Jacob

Samuel

Novogrod Abe

Bela

Olin Herman

Julia Louis

Olinsky Becky Elsie Gertrude Meyer Tony William

Olitsky Dr. Barney

Esther Harry Minnie

Olson John

Oransky Bernard

Jacob Harriet Harry

Orlan Abe

Ida

Packer Archie

Palefsky Matilda

Morris

Perla Bernie

Roslyn

Peshkin Rosalind

Phillips Abner

Bessie

Pitasky Annette M.

Michael

Polevoi Family

Pollack Goldie

Hyman Ida

Seymour Harry

Polansky Harry

Rose Levitt

Popkin Barney

Barry

(^-Harry) Nehemia Ray

Pressman Anna

Samuel

Sidney

Przytycke Family

Rabinowitz Abraham

Leona

Radbill Ruth Gripman

Rams Anna

Randelman

Dr. Arthur

Leah

Nathan

Rau Beate

Simon

Rauch Dora Epstein

Reckerson Lena

Reich Sarah

Reiss Philip

Riger Louis

Sabina

Robbins Jessie

Robinson Meyer

Samuel

Rogoff Martin

Rom Bessie

Harry

Herman

Rome Joseph

Nathan

Rosen Mabel S.

Rev. Meyer Helen A.

Rosenberg Harriet

Isaac Mollie

Sarah

Allan Barry Jerome Lewis

Rosenblum Ada

Harry

Rosenfeld Robert

Pauline

Rosenthal Esther

Joseph Philip Ruth

Rosner Albert

Rothenberg Beatrice

Rubien Herman

Rubin Anna

Bessie Celia Herman Hyman Molly Morris Sarah

Rutkin Isadore

Julius

Russ Ida

Nathan

Rutenberg Albert

Saas George

Julia Miriam

Salama Ruth

Salomon

Salway Bertha

Michael

Samachson Anna R.

David

Sandler Pincus

Saperstein Albert A

Sophia

Vera

Scharf Marcia

Schein Louis

Mollie

Schenke Sonia

Schlam Isidor

Schulman Anna

Schulz Karl

Norma

Otto

Schutzbank

Scull

Seavey

Carol

Jeanne

Morris

Abraham

Esther

Goldie

Joseph

Leon

Rebecca

Samuel

Anne P.

Annie 0.

Isaac

Jacob

Peter

Seplow Louis

Rose

Shein Benjamin P.

Bessie Joseph

Shutz Edward E.

Lillian

Schwartz Harry

David

Eva

Sharlin Emanuel "Manny"

Sherbekow Robert

Shor Rosalind

Siegel Bessie

Max H.

Michael

Rose

Siegle Annie

Benjamin A.

Irving

Nathan

Samuel

Sophie

Siet Max

Sarah

Sigall Anna Abrams

Abraham

Silverstein Harry

Herman

Israel

Mollie

C. Rose

Simon Mie

Frank

John

Mary

Max

Simons David

Samuel

Simpson Fannie Haveson

Sklute Milton

Sloin Abraham

Sloshberg Aryeh

Rose

Small Evelyn

Simon

Anna

Solomon Lizzie

Sam

Smith Bessie

Max

Speiser Frances

Thomas

Sova

Abraham

Frances

Slavin

Sylvia

William

Spiezle Lena

Nathan

Stanley Harry

Sarah

Starr Aaron

Abraham

Bessie

Ruth

Steinberg David

Steiner Morris

Rachel

Steingrob Jacob

Lena

Stern Bessie

Celia

Harry

Henrietta

Joseph

Norman

Pauline

Samuel

Samuel S.

Stone Jacob

Minnie

Strulowitz Adele

Isadore

Jack

Sumholz Anna

David

Sussna Louis

Minnie

Sutnick Anne

Nathan

Nathaniel T.

Rebecca

Swern Abraham

Rifke Leah

Tankel Abraham

Bertha

Ethel

Lena

Joseph

Tankle Fannie

Morris

Tankle Rose

Samuel

Tarshis Bertha Ruth

Henry

Issac

Rose

Taub Carolyn

Dora

John

Teich Anna

Teitz David

Rose

Tickner Leonard

Tlustek Maria

Tomor Arnold

David

Irving

Janette

Morris

Paul

Trouse Daniel

Janet

Tyger Belle

Joseph

Stanley

Franklin

Ullman Max

Ungar Gussie

Max

Peter

Roberta

Urken Abraham

Fannie

Morris

Vine Isaac

Sarah D.

Wagner Herman

Max

Weinberg Harry

Isadore

Lena

Sadie R.

Weiner Abraham

Gwendolyn

George

Weinstein Frank J.

Morris

Irwin

Weisberg David

Esther

Weiss Bernard

Betty

Herman

Weiss Lilly

Welger Celine

Irving

Willis Ray

Wineberg Besse

Blanch

Isaac

Kate

Max

Morris

Sarah

Solomon

Wishnevsky Jennie

Morris

Wollner Herbert

Jean S.

Young Dore

Louis

Robert J.

Youth Joseph

Mary

Zeidman Ruth Leona

Zeltt Abraham

Zerman Esther

Etta

Louis

Paul

Zettler Morris

Zinskind Augusta Olga

Zoltick William

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Brothers of Israel (Acheinu B’nai Yisroel) Est. 1883

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