January 29, 1928

February 10, 1928

Rabbi N. Riff

Camden
Courier-Post

February 21, 1928

Kaighn Avenue

Mrs. H. Barroway
Mrs. L. Blumenstein
Mrs. A.E. Friedberg
Mrs. S. Rosenberg
Mrs. I. Siris

Black Cat Orchestra

February 29, 1928

Camden Courier-Post * October 29, 1931

BAIRD TO ADDRESS HEBREW LEAGUE

David Baird, Jr., Republican nominee for governor, will make his final appearance in the current election campaign Monday night, in his "own home town," when he will address a monster rally at the Hebrew Republican League, at the Talmud Torah, 621 Kaighn avenue.

The Hebrew league reorganized formally at a luncheon in the Hotel Walt Whitman. Lewis Liberman, assistant city solicitor, was elected president; Sig Schoenagle, Samuel Shaner, Israel Weitzman, vice-presidents; L. Scott Cherchesky, secretary, and Samuel Label, treasurer.

Trustees of the league include Hyman Bloom, Mitchell E. Cohen, Benjamin Friedman, Jacob L. Furer, Isadore H. Hermann, Carl Kisselman, Edward Markowitz, Louis L. Markowitz, Harry Obus, Maurice L. Praissman, Samuel Richelson, Meyer L. Sakin, Julius Rosenberg, Jacob Rosenkrantz and Jack Weinberg.

In addition to former Senator Baird, speakers at the Jewish rally will include Mrs. Elizabeth C. Verga, Republican state committeewoman and vice chairman of the county committee; Congressman Charles A. Wolverton, Congressman Benjamin Golder, of Pennsylvania, and State Senator Samuel Salus, of Pennsylvania.

A campaign to raise funds for the Federation of Jewish' Charities of Camden was launched yesterday under the chairmanship of E. George Aaron. The drive will continue a week.

Funds raised will be contributed to the support of the Hebrew Ladies' Sheltering Home, the Talmud Torah, and the Free Loan Fund.

The campaign, Aaron' announced, will be aided by the Jewish charitable organizations of Camden and the following have been named team captains:

Rabbi N, Riff, Samuel Shane, L. Tarter, S. Lippman, A. Barbell, J. Grossberg, H. Odlen, Leon Rose, Lewis Liberman, Mrs. S. Litow, Mrs. M. Shapiro, Mrs. H. Kaplan, Mrs. S. Shane, Mrs. R. Bukstel. Mrs. F. Bloom, Mrs. V. Gerber and Mrs. S. S. Lewis.

There will be a meeting in the Talmud Torah tonight, when Rabbi B. L. Levinthal, of Philadelphia, will speak in support of the campaign. 

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Barish, of 310 North Tenth Street, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Miriam Barish, to Richard Kember, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kember, of 1293 Magnolia Avenue. The announcement was made at 8 p.m. Sunday, at the Talmud Torah, 621 Kaighn Avenue.  

More than $1500 in pledges and in cash have been received in the campaign of the Camden Federation of Jewish Charities, it was announced last night by E. George Aaron, chairman of the campaign committee. The drive will continue through this week. 

Campaign workers seeking funds for the Hebrew Ladies' Charities, Sheltering Home, Camden Talmud Torah and Free Loan Fund follow: Rabbi N. Riff, Mr. and Mrs. S. Shane, Mrs. R. Bukstel, Mrs. S. Litow, Mrs. M. Shapiro, Mrs. H. Kaplan, Mrs. L. Creskoff, Mrs. B. Ostroff, Mrs. S. Goldstein Mrs. A. Goodman, Mrs. S. Masel, Mrs. M. Koll, Mrs. F. Bloom, Mrs. M. Cornrich, Mrs. V. Gerber, Mrs. L. Weiss and Mrs. S. Soloff, Leon H. Rose, Lewis Liberman, A. Barbell, S. S. Lewis, J. Grossberg, B. Greenberg, S. Lippman, J. Ruttenberg, S. Stein. H. Odlen, J. Block, O. Praissman, S. Naden, D. Lefkowitz, and David Epstein.

Pledges of more than $3000 in a campaign for $5000 by the Camden Federation of Jewish Charities were announced by E. George Aaron, general chairman. 

The campaign, in which leaders in Jewish circles and Women's Auxiliaries are participating, will be extended to include this week to enable workers to cover thoroughly their respective areas. 

The drive, according to Aaron, has met with hearty cooperation from all groups, and he expressed his appreciation of the efforts of the workers. 

"The drive," he said. "which opened June 4 will meet with complete success if the receipt of pledges to date may be used as a measure. The scope of the work leads us to extend the period of the campaign for an additional week, closing June 18." 

Included among the groups for whom funds are being sought are the Hebrew Ladies' Charities, Sheltering Home, Camden Talmud Torah and Free Loan Fund.

At an executive meeting of the United Committee for Relief of German Jews, held at Beth El Synagogue last night, the captains who will be in charge of teams for the purpose of raising $10,000 for relief of German Jews, were announced by Leon H. Rose, general chairman. In urging the appointees to intensive efforts, Rose said: 

"Six hundred thousand Jews are in distress. They are ousted from office, discharged from employment, denied civil and economic rights, persecuted and systematically forced to starve to death.

"There is raging in Germany one of the coldest and cruelest pogroms against the Jews ever known to history.

"We must help. We must rescue those helpless ones. Our weapon for immediate retaliation is money, and we must supply those arms. By the widest stretch of the imagination, it is inconceivable how any Jew in this community can exclude himself from this cause. 

"Thousands of German Jews, especially among the young, see a prospect of restarting their lives in Palestine to which some of them already have made their way. Determined, concerted Jewish effort can make it capable of providing a permanent home for a considerable part of German Jewry to whom the rest of the world, with few exceptions, is closed. 

"Immediate funds are needed. I appeal to you as self-respecting Jews who understand the suffering of your own race to come to the aid of your stricken brothers and sisters. Give them all you can." 

Those named and the organizations they represent are: Jacob Leventon, Congregation Beth El; David Lefkowitz, congregation Sons of Israel; Morris Josselson, Congregation Beth Israel; Benjamin Friedman, B'nai Brith; Mrs. I.S. Siris, Hadassah; Philip Miller, Hebrew Parent Teachers Association; Herman Odlen, Federation of Jewish Charities; Mrs. Rose Goldstein, Independent Social; Harry W. Markowich, Zionist Organization; Norman Heine, Junior 
Council; Julius Samson, Upsilon Lambda Phi. 

Mrs. William Laub, Council of Jewish Women; A. David Epstein, Sigma Alpha Rho; Mrs. Aaron Heine, Beth El Sisterhood; Samuel Shane, Talmud Torah; M. Snyder, Workmen's Circle; M. Bard, F. of S. U.; Louis Tarter, Independent Progress Lodge; Mrs. Zelda Lutz, Jacob J. Hernfeld Link; Dr. I.S. Siris, Jewish Welfare Society; Mrs. M. Shapiro, Hebrew Ladies Charities. 

Saul Lippman, Mizrachi; Mrs. Samuel Litow, Welfare Social Club; D. Breslow, Gordonia.; Dr. Reuben Cutler, Mizpah Lodge No. 245; F. & A. M.; Meyer Adelman, Camden Level Club; Mrs. Etta Rosen, B'nai Brith Auxiliary; Mrs. L. Weiss, Ladies Auxlliary of Progress Lodge; Miriam Morris, Junior 
Charity Workers; Mrs. A. Stoolman, Deborah Society; Mrs. M. Leider, Welfare Social.

Moses Bord was appointed captain of the workers. A mass meeting will be held June 20, at the Talmud Torah building, Seventh Street and Kaighn Avenue, and will be addressed by members of national, state and municipal governments, as well as outstanding Jewish leaders from New York and Philadelphia. 

Mrs. Michael Shapiro has been installed as president of the Camden Hebrew Ladies' Charities with headquarters at the Talmud Torah, 621 Kaighn Avenue, for the coming year. 

In addition to Mrs. Shapiro the following members of the executive board were installed: Mrs. Rose Bellitz, first vice president; Mrs. Sarah Seidman, second vice president; Mrs. A. Bitman, treasurer; Mrs. Rose Worthrich, financial secretary; Mrs. Louis Creskoff, correspondlng secretary; Mrs. Benjamin Ostroff, recording secretary. 

The following committees have been named: Mrs. Hyman Kaplan, chairman of the investigations committee; Mrs. W. Waldman, chairman of the meal tickets committee; Mrs. Kaplan and Mrs. Samuel Litow, co-chairmen in charge of food orders. 

Rabbi N. Riff, of the Congregation Sons of Israel, addressed the group at the installation and urged harmony and co-operation in the organization as a means to the greatest accomplishment in its work.. 

Camden Jews will stage a mass meeting at 8:30 o'clock tonight at the Talmud Torah, 621 Kaighn Avenue, in the interest of relief of their persecuted brethren in Germany. 

A campaign has been launched to raise $10,000 for relief work. Contributions should be sent to the United Committee for Relief of German Jews, 908 Broadway-Stevens Building. 

The speakers will include Abe Goldberg, New York; Judge William M. Lewis, Philadelphia; Mayor Roy R. Stewart and rabbis and clergymen of all creeds. Leon H. Rose will preside. 

The committee reports 600,000 men, women and children have suffered as a result of Nazi atrocities in Germany. 

"Hundreds have been deprived of their rights of citizenship and livelihood," continued the announcement. 

"Loyalty, patriotism, service, have counted for naught; doctors, lawyers, civil servants, university professors and other teachers, scientists, musicians, industrial workers, have been driven from their positions and have been denied the right to work at their vocations. Even the right to an education is now being denied many of Jewish children. 

"These German Jewish men and women recognized no political loyalty save an undivided loyalty to their country. They wanted nothing, demanded nothing, but the right to live in security and peace, and to develop their own destinies as self respecting men and women, and to labor for the upbuliding of their country."" 

The United Committee for the Relief of German Jews opened its campaign for $10,000 in Camden last night at a rally in the Talmud Torah hall, 621 Kaighn Avenue near Seventh Street.

A total of $391.50 was contributed at the meeting to start the campaign and the committee members announced.

Abe Goldberg, of New York, internationally known Yiddish orator, and Judge William M. Lewis, of Philadephia, addressed the gathering, pleading for financial assistance for Jewish refugees driven from Germany by the Hitler persecution.

"In Germany we are not even considered a people," Goldberg said. "We have given Germany its greatest scientific and medical achievements and this is the 
compensation we receive."

Judge Lewis declared there was no parallel in the history of Israel for the Hitler persecution, and urged that Jews "use their only weapon­ that of boycott of all German things, industrially and professionally." 

Leon H. Rose, Camden attorney, presided. He said every section of the city would be canvassed during the campaign. 

Contributions thus far are as follows:

The Federation of Jewish Charities concluded its campaign for funds Thursday night with a banquet attended by workers and directors of the organization, at the Talmud Torah, 621 Kaighn Avenue. 

E. George Aaron, chairman of the campaign, announced that more than $5000 was pledged. Talks were made by Herman Odlen, Samuel Shane, Samuel Lippman, A. Barbell, Mrs. S. Litow, Mrs. M. Shapiro and Mrs. C. Riff.

Rabbi N. Riff presented a walking stick to Aaron for his work as head of the drive. 

An appeal to Camden's Jewish populace to attend an emergency meeting of the United Committee for Relief of German Jews to be held tonight at the Talmud Torah, Kaighn Avenue, near Seventh Street, was issued last night by Leon H. Rose, chairman.

The committee is seeking $10,000 as Camden's quota for the care of Jewish refugees driven from Germany by the Hitler persecution.

"The plight of Germany's Jewish population and the hardships upon women and children have not ceased," Rose said. We Jews in Camden have a part to play. Our aid must not be limited to a protest, but we help to bring actual relief to the 600,000 stricken Jews in Germany. We must give them some little help toward reconstructing their lives somewhere, or somehow. We must find a way to help them become self-supporting, a way whereby Jewish children will receive some education, some training of hand and mind to prepare themselves for the pioneer life which seems to be their only hope."

Contributions are as follows

Representatives of every Jewish organization in Camden were in attendance last night at an emergency meeting of the United Committee for relief of German Jews, held in Talmud Torah Hall, Kaighn Avenue near Seventh Street, when plans to complete a drive for $10,000 by July 3 were adopted.

Leon H. Rose, Camden attorney and chairman of the committee, appointed a special committee to push the drive for funds to aid the 600,000 German Jews, victims of Hitler persecution.

Addresses were made at the meeting by Rabbi N. S. Arnoff, of Beth El Synagogue and Rabbi N. Riff, of Sons of Israel Synagogue. The committee includes Mark Marritz, Samuel Shane, Bella Ostroff, Joseph Shapiro, Mrs. Esther Rosen, Mary Mann, Benjamin Friedman, Herman Odlen, Harry W. Markowitz, Mrs. William Laud, A. David Epstein, M. Snyder, Louis Tartar, Dr. I. S. Siris, J. Richterman, Mrs, David Esterman, Harry Steinberg, Sylvia Sandgrund and Mrs. Hattie Michel.

An additional $300 was collected at the meeting and turned over to Lewis Liberman, assistant city solicitor, who is treasurer of the committee. 

Committees have been announced for the Five and Ten Cent Carnival and Dance which members of the Junior Welfare Social Club will hold in the Talmud Torah building, 621-23 Kaighn Avenue, on Sunday, February 16.

Miss Julia Shapiro is chairman of the general committee and sub-chairmen are Miss Isabella B. Ostroff, games; Miss Rose Greenstein, orchestra and dance; Miss Gertrude Zimmerman and Miss Greenstein, publcity; Miss Mildred Redlus, tickets; Mrs. Albert Morwitz, refreshments; Miss Florence Cooper, decorations.

Prize awards will be made for all groups. Proceeds will be used for the club's various charity projects.

Camden Courier-Post - February 24, 1936

JEWISH FEDERATION HOST TO 400 AT BALL
13^th Annual Event Staged in Moose Hall as 4 Groups Co-operate

The thirteenth annual ball of the Federation of Jewish Charities attracted more than 400 guests last night to Moose Hall.

Four organizations of Jewish community workers' have united in an extensive program of the federation engaged in civic and welfare programs. They are the Hebrew Welfare Society, the Hebrew Ladies Society, the Talmud Torah and the Sheltering Home.

A program of entertainment and dancing featured last night's event.

Among entertainers were Marci Dutkin, 10-year-old Camden "Dancing Doll", Frank Arena, of "Gold Diggers of 1935", and Eddie Peabody, stage star. Music was provided by Sam Yellin's Black Cat Serenaders. The floor show was under direction of Charles Dutkin.

Samuel Shane was chairman of the ball committee with the following co-chairman: Mrs. Martin Koll, Morris Rapkin, Lewis Weinstein, Samuel Zaslow and Alex Malamut.

Among the women Federation assisting at the affair were Mrs. H. Kaplan, Mrs. Samuel Shane, Mrs. V. Gerber, and Mrs. F. Bloom.

Little boys, teachers and school officials alike wear their hats to the Talmud Torah, the Hebrew school, in the 600 block of Kaighn Avenue, where the ancient Hebrew language is taught along with the modern Yiddish and all Jewish culture from the prophets to the present. Top photo shows Morris Ozer, 1103 Morton Street, reading, while Instructor Solomon Brody listens, and Leon H. Rose (right), president of the Hebrew Board of Education, also listens for correct inflection. The Hebrew alphabet hangs on the wall and a section of the 1B class is visible. Bottom photo shows four pupils holding the letters of the alphabet that spell "ezra" which means help. They are preparing for the annual drive of the Federation of Jewish Charities, which has the slogan "Help the Helpless." From left to right: Solomon Cohen, 576 Chestnut Street; William Schwartz, 2007 Woodlynne Avenue; Eleanor Miller, 1270 Morton Street; and Rita Barag, 1131 Locust Street. While not a charity institution, the Talmud Torah is one of the institutions supported by the $15,000 drive.

January 21, 1938

MAYOR AND MRS. KOBUS OPEN BAZAAR TOMORROW

Mayor Brunner and Commissioner Kobus will open the bazaar to be held by the ladies auxiliary of Sons of Israel Synagogue tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday.

The bazaar will be staged at the Talmud Torah, with a supper starting the festivities at 6 p. m. tomorrow.

On Monday night, Commissioner Bennett and E. Howard Broome, will be present, it was announced.

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