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B'nai Jeshurun congregation 150 years B'nai Jeshurun 150 year timeline B'nai Jeshurun congregation 140 years ● Banner 1 1866 to 1920 ● Banner 2 1920 to 1966 ● Banner 3 1966 to 1996 ● Banner 4 1996 to present The CJN B'nai Jeshurun Timeline
Congregation Brith Emeth and Rabbi Philip Horowitz by Alan Levenson
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The Alsbacher Document, May 1839 • Moses Alsbacher and his descendants • Graves of Moses Alsbacher and descendants • Larger images of the three moved headstones • Abe Nebel, who found the document Jewish Cemetery in Unsleben Bavaria Connecting with The Lost Jews of Unsleben new
Jewish Cleveland before the Civil War by Schwartz and Lasky• Pages 1 - 15 • Pages 16 - end • Appendix introduction • Appendix - list of 850 antebellum Jewish residents A-C D-F G-I J-L M-R S-U V-Z Sam and Minnie Klausner, from Tetiev, Ukraine, 1910 • Introduction • The Pale of Settlement • From Russia to Cleveland • Tetiev Today by Fred Livingstone • Sam and Minnie's Life in Cleveland • Sam and Minnie's Family in 1926 • Klausner Cooperage • Sam and Minnie's Children • Mary Klausner and Issie Klotzman • Fred Klotzman: Mary and Issie's Son • A Family Scrapbook • Family Reunions • Epilogue • Postscript: Lisa Klausner Moves Home • Passenger Lists (Ship Manifests) • 1910 Minnie and children • 1910 Minnie and children page 2 • 1907 Issie Klotzman • US Census Forms • 1910 Issie Klotzman • 1920 Sam and Minnie • 1920 Sam and Minnie's children • 1930 Sam and Minnie • Mary Klausner and Issie Klotzman Marriage Record • Mary Klausner Klotzman's Letter • Klausner Cooperage Newspaper Story • Klausner Family Tree
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Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver by Arnold Berger Welcome page Home pageAbout this Site • Introduction — how this site started • What's New and What's coming • Site Guide — how we present information • Permissions - Privacy statement • Recollections — webkeeper's recollections Youth • Maps • 1910 census record Wheeling West Virginia years • From HUC to Wheeling • Wheeling 1915-17 • From Wheeling to Cleveland • Resignation Letter The Temple - Tifereth Israel in Cleveland Zionism Ascent to leadership, success and later • Photos • Tannersville photo 1906 • Zionism - notes Publications • Books • Poem - America new • In The Time of Harvest (1963) new Biography • On the internet • In-print • The work of Ofer Shiff Recognition Chair in Jewish Studies new Photos LP record made in 1954: What is Judaism new Funeral Service • El Maley Rachamin Obituary (N Y Times) Death Notices (N Y Times) Gravesite Zvi Hirsch Masliansky - Silver's oratorical inspiration • Biography • Photos • 60th Birthday Celebration • Memoirs • Silver's Eulogy for Masliansky • Silver's Handwritten Notes for the Eulogy Endnotes Abba Hillel Silver Archives
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Cleveland's Jews mourn Abraham Lincoln Invocations at Republican conventions 1904 American Zionist Convention new Confirmations in Cleveland by Bud Weidenthal • Is Confirmation a Disappearing Rite of Passage?Four generations of confirmations at The Temple - Tifereth Israel • 1905 father William Weidenthal • 1941 Maurice (Bud) Weidenthal • 1976 daughter Susan Weidenthal Saltzman • 2006 granddaughters Hayley and Stephanie Two confirmations in the 1860s
Bat Mitzvah Ceremony - 1922 - First in America • 1949 - Park Synagogue
Going to the Schvitz by Irv (Earl) Seidman
U N Resolution 181 70th Anniversary new On the morning of 9/11 we said Kaddish twice new
Cleveland and the Freeing of Soviet Jewryby Dr Louis Rosenblum Introduction Table of Contents Preface, From These Beginnings First Contact with the Jewish Federation of Cleveland Launching the Cleveland Committee On the National Scene An American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry Transforming the Cleveland Committee Face-to-Face with Visiting Soviet Cultural Groups Agreement Between the JCFC and the CCSA CCSA Projects • Spotlight Newsletter • Handbook for Community Action • Students and Housewives • Protest Stamps (Seals) • Movie - "Before Our Eyes" • Leadership Conferences • Greeting Cards to Soviet Jews • Freedom Caravan • Project Sefer Union of Councils for Soviet Jews Political Action The Government of Israel — The Elephant in the Room • Backstory • The Office Finds Us • Blush Off the Rose • Enforcer or Loose Cannon? • Office Overtures: Played Dolce • Office Control Crumbles • The Why and Wherefore and the Woe • In Contrast: An American Strategy • Notes Coda EndnoteBiographies: • Abe Silverstein • Louis Rosenblum • Ann Shenkar Archives Learn More (links to other resources) Interview by Daniel Rosenblum new • Text of Interview (pdf) newPages by others • 25th anniversary of Summit Sunday • Natan Sharansky: How the movement helped end the Cold War • Proclamation of a Sabbath for Soviet Jewry (1966) • Herb Caron: how the movement began (1963) • Oral History Project new • May 15, 2016 presentation • Report on Resettlement
Herb Ascherman's Rabbis (2008)
