Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-26
OHEB SHADOWS
SYNAGOGUE To De
DEDICATED Sept
Congregations Fine New Home
Is Completed at Cost
of 100000.
ELABORATE OPENING
PROGRAM is PLANNED.
Finest Religious Services viii
Be Held on Friday Evening,
September 8.

An suspicious religious event IN local
k5ebrew circles will be the coming dedi-
cation of the 100000 new synagogue
Of the Congregation Oheb Shalom,
hocated on High street, near West Kin
hey, which will be solemnized with a
series of special services beginning on
Thursday evening, September Z. when
Rhe dedicatory exercises will be held,
and on Friday evening and Saturday
morning, when the opening religious
e~essions will be held in the costly
HtEucture.
Rabbi Charles I. Hoffman will off,
rfate at the dedication and it is ex-
peoted that several noted Jewish
clergymen will take part in the I'M
pressive ceremony.
The music will also be of a special
character and the cantor and director,
the Rev. Max Helfere, will provide d
notable program of synagogue music
INV the famous masters. Organist ].
Louis MINER will preside at the key
hoard of the f1ne-toned old organ,
(which was removed from the Prince
street sanctuary and rebuilt in the
new temple, The soprano soloist will
He Mrs. George ]. Kirwan, the accom-
,plished choir singer who has oficiated
IN thai capacity at the local synagogue
for the past sixteen years. The other
members of the choir will consist OF
miss Nellie ~evey, contralto; Ira KEEL
1er, tenor, and T. Herbert Dear, bass.
The official members of the congre-
,gation, through whose energetic efforts
the temple achievement was consum-
,ated. will also assist in the three-day
celebration.
They include Samuel Schwartz, presi-
dent; Emanuel Abeles, vice-president;
Isaac Lowenstein, treasurer; Isidor
Grand, financial secretary; Leo Stein,
corresponding secretary; Edward Blau,
Charles ]. Beck, Jacob Cohen, Simon
IHeyman, Julius Abeles and Meyer
'Kussy.
The various societies connected with
the temple, comprising the Miriam
iFrauen Verein, the Hatechiah Zionist
Society, the Agudath Ibriah n the
sons and Daughters of Zion, will also
participate in the exercises.
The prominent women of the congre-
cation who will also aid in making the
Ioponing of the temple suspicious will
he Mrs. Celia Lowenstein, Mrs. Carrie
Meyers. Mrs. Josephine Fischel, Mrs.
.Siegfried Kohn and the Misses Leah
Abeles, Ruth Beck, Esther Klein, Sarah
hKussy and Anna Miller.
In brief, the new synagogue Is one of
Ahe handsomest and most spacious re-
higious houses in the State. Ground
twas broken for the edlfice on May 81,
t1otn coA tba oorparsfopa was laid on
September II. The structure is Of brick
.and faced with white stone and the
Woodwork and interior trim is of OAK
Itains eight classrooms, a large as
ysembly-room, a library, reading-room,
Kitchen and toilets.
The pews in the main auditorium are
of quartered oak and the seating
lcapacity is over n thousand. Biblical
,subjects and symbols shed their radi-
ance from the color-tinted loaded glass
windows and inscriptions in gold blazon
from many of the interior arch panels.
The memorial gifts include a rich vel
vet curtain, presented by the ladies of
the Miriam Verein as a veil and cover
ing for the white enamel ark and
scrolls, and Mr.. and Mrs. George Kridel
EdNe Il ptiPGludl light IltbitN AlG-
mortal stone panel in emo of Mrs.
Kridel's parents, the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Lazar Roth.
Rabbi DR.. Charles l. Hoffman, OF
Oheb Shalom Temple, was called to
the local congregation as the successor
of the Rev. DR.. Bernard Gluck in
March, 1905. He was born in Philadel-
phia and studied at the University OF
nA-- a 1akA. k.IrG~- $50, ~
tise of law.
firing of Blackstone, he went 70
England and entered the University of
Cambridge, where he became a pupil
OF DR.. Solomon Schechter, a famous
Hebrew scholar. Returning TO this
country, he accepted a call at Indian
npoiis. Ind, and six years ago resigned
the charge to come to this city.