The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-23
BNA| JESHURUN,
SIXTY YEARS OLD,
JUBILEE TONIGHT
Anniversary Celebration Will
Extend Over Three Days.
Special Services.

This evening begins the jubilee mark
ing the sixtteth anniversary of the
Temple B'nai Jeshurun, and a three
days celebration in honor of the occa-
sion has been planned, which will
eclipse anything which has yet been
attempted In the Hebrew synod. The
congregation has the largest member
ship of the Hebrew churches in this
city, and shows the remarkable growth
of the Jewish population.
The jubilee also marks the significant
change from the ancient orthodoxy to
the more modern reformed methods of
Judaism. The Temple B'nai Jeshurun
is the only reformed congregation of
the city.
According to the program for this
evening as finally arranged, the princi-
pal speakers will be as follows: The
Rev. DR.. Joseph Krauskopf, of Phila-
delphia, rabbi of TIE Congregation
Keneset Israel, and founder and pres
ident of the National Farm .-chool, and
Rabbi Moses j. Cries, of Cleveland, a
former Newark boy and now one of the
most eminent o n of the Congregation
B'nai Jeshurun. The opening prayer
will be offered by Rabbi Joseph Leucht,
n the address of welcome by Rabbi
solomon Foster. In homo of the occa-
sion, the o%rganist. c. Wenham Smith.
has composed a jubilee march, "B'nai
Jeshurun," and a "Fantasie of Hebrew
Melodies" to be executed OF the organ
With harp and violin accompaniment.
The harpist will be Vincent Fanel' and
the violinist Miss Ethel Cecilia Smith.
daughter of the organist. Mrs. Elise
Stevens Wood will sirg as a Eoprano
solo give Ear. o Shepherd of Israeli
by Gounod- Bach, end Frank Ormsby
will render the tenor solo, ITO God
Whose Mercies Never End" by Bizet.
Tonight's' services will begin at 1880.
The service tomorrow morning will be
at $3.50 and that on Sunday afternoon
at 2:30.
Some of the founders of the congre-
cation are still living and active mem
bers. Louis Trier was the first Hebrew
settler here, and Meier Newman came
about two years later. In 1916. Other
settlers still living are b. Hauser and
l.. Adler, who with Mendel Samuel,
Meyer Froehlich and Mr.. Spiro made
the appeal In 1850 for the establishment
of a synagogue. The present officers
of the congregation are Lesser Lehman,
president; Philip Lindeman. vice-presi-
dent; Joseph Goetz, treasurer, and
Joseph Korn, secretary. The trustees
are Simon Scheuer, Meier Newman,
Moses Straus, Aaron Meyer, Louis
Plaut, Louis Schlesinger, Abraham
Metzger and Nathan Steiner.
There are now many societies con-
nected with the temple, the principal
ones being conducted by the ladies.
The oldest one was the Ladies' Temnlc
Association, whose aim was the ra
ing of money for the needs of the con
gregation, but it Is now merged with
the Jewish Sisterhood, and they nave
widened their scope OF philanthropy,
and now embrace a nursery, which
cared for during the last year $3.50
children.
The sisterhood also, during the months
of July and August last, and largely
through the generosity of one woman
Mrs. L. NJ. Frank, of East Orange, took
1000 Newark boys and girls or excur-
sions into the country. It's off,
GERS are: Mrs. Solomon Foster, presi-
dent; Mrs. Harry S~chlesinger, first vice.
president: Mrs. Siegfried Kohn, second
vice-president; Mrs. Jacob Roth, treas
urer; Mrs. Julius Silberfeld, financial
secretary; Mrs. M. G. Alexander, re-
cording secretary; Mrs. Abraham Roths-
child. chairman of the house committee.
Another important organization Is
the Hebrew Ladies' Sewing Circle,
which devotes itself to making clothes
and providing shoes for the needy. The
officers of the society are: Mrs. M. G.
Alexander. president; Mrs. Lipstein,
vice-president; Mrs. David Wolff,
treasurer; Mrs. Joseph Kind, financial
secretary; Mrs. Minnie De Jonge, CORE
spending secretary.
The Immediate Relief Society is In
other charitable organization which
supplies coal. groceries and all food
stuffs to those In want. Mrs. Grotta Is
president and Mrs. Stern treasurer.
During the Jubilee exercises no n
will be admitted to the services with
ont a ticket.