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Conflict over Reforms: The Case of the Congregation Beth Elohim, Charleston, South Carolina; Rosengarten, Dale and Ted. (2003) A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life Columbia: University of South Carolina Press; Tarshish, Allan. The Charleston Organ Case American Jewish Historical Quarterly, 54:4 (June 1965): 411 ...
He was also a board member of the Inter-Racial Committee, a director of the local Service Men's Club and the United Service Organization, a 33rd Degree Mason, and a member of the Theological Club of Charleston, the American Jewish Historical Society, B'nai B'rith, the Hebrew Benevolent Society, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Histadrut Ivrit, and ...
The first Jewish settlers in Sumter were Sephardi who came from Charleston in 1815. Congregation Sinai was formed in April 1895, by the merger of the Hebrew Cemetery Society and the Sumter Hebrew Benevolent Society. Visiting rabbis from Charleston and Augusta, Georgia, served the congregation until 1904 when Rabbi Jacob Klein settled in Sumter ...
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim (Hebrew: קהל קדוש בית אלוהים, lit. 'Holy Congregation House of God', [3] also known as K. K. Beth Elohim, or more simply Congregation Beth Elohim) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located in Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States.
Sarah Visanska was a founder and first president of the Charleston section of the National Council of Jewish Women. [2] She spent six years as president of the Charleston Civic Club, and two years as president of the South Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs. [3]
In 1784, the Hebrew Benevolent Society was founded by Jews in Charleston, South Carolina to aid ill Jewish immigrants, expanding their mission in 1824 to the Jewish poor of the city. The Society helped poor Jews bury their dead, acquire heating fuel, and buy matzah for Passover. [4]
Pages in category "Hebrew Benevolent Society" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
After arriving in the United States, he began serving as a shochet and the assistant hazzan at the Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City in 1832. [1] [7]In 1836, he was approached by members of Congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston, South Carolina, when a vacancy in the position of hazzan, or minister, had opened up.